"Battle of Lake Erie"

color engraving

PRINTS - ENGRAVINGS
Powell, W.H.; Phillibrown, T.
USA, Great Lakes, Erie, Lake
1813
paper
frame 12 x 13-3/8 in.; sight 6-7/8 x 8-1/2 in.

Color engraving, "Battle of Lake Erie"; depicts 1813 battle during War of 1812; printed lower left "Painted by W.H. Powell", and lower right "Engraved by T. Phillibrown", and below title at bottom "'If a Victory is to be gained, I'll gain it',/ OLIVER H. PERRY"; 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 "Battle of Lake Erie" - in History of the United States from the Earliest Period to the Administration of President Johnson by Jesse Ames Spencer, 1866 (as of 2007 this book is not owned by Mystic Seaport.)

2007.65.4