CONSTITUTION, PEACOCK, EPERVIER, & JAVA

tooth

SCRIMSHAW & ALLIED ARTS - TEETH
marad; scrimshaw
ivory
Overall: 3 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 1 13/16 in.

Tooth. Naval engagement showing American frigate CONSTITUTION and wrecked British ship JAVA, after "The Java Surrendering to the Constitution" in Abel Bowen, "The Naval Monument" (Boston, 1816). On other side, Naval engagement showing an engagement between American ship-sloop PEACOCK and British vessel EPERVIER, after "The Peacock and Epervier," engraved by Abel Bowen (1790-1850) for "The Naval Monument", based on a painting by Thomas Birch (1779-1851).

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