"Capture of the Essex"

color engraving

PRINTS - ENGRAVINGS
Corne, Michaele Felice; Bowen, Abel
1814
paper
frame 9 x 12-1/4 in.; sight 4-1/8 x 7-3/8 in.

Color engraving, "Capture of the Essex"; depicts Battle of Valparaiso (Chile), 1814, during War of 1812, with the frigate ESSEX at left and the British vessels, PHOEBE and CHERUB at right; printed lower left, "M. Corne, p.", center bottom "CAPTURE OF THE ESSEX.", and lower right "A. Bowen, sc."; framed under glass; Old Print Shop (150 Lexington Ave. at 30th St., NYC) label on back; handwritten in red ink on frame backing "24828"; engraving cut, by a previous owner, from book, "The Naval Monument: containing official and other accounts of all the battles fought between the navies of the United
States and Great Britain during the late war and an account of the war with Algiers...to which is annexed a naval register of the United States, revised and corrected and brought down to the year 1836" by Abel Bowen, between pages 103-104 [An edition of this book is owned by Mystic Seaport.]

2007.65.2