"Com. Paul Jones Capturing the Serapis"

hand colored engraving

PRINTS - ENGRAVINGS
Johnson, Fry & Co.; Chappel
1779; 1858
paper
frame 14-5/8 x 11 in.; sheet 9-5/8 x 6-1/4 in.

Color engraving, "Com. Paul Jones Capturing the Serapis"; depicted 1779 battle between the Jones' s BONNE HOMME RICHARD and the British vessel SERAPIS; printed at bottom below title "From the original Picture by Chappel in the possession of the Publishers./ Johnson, Fry * Co. Publishers, New York", and "Entered according to act of Congress AD1858 by Johnson, Fry & Co. in the clerk's office of the district court of the southern district of New York."; Old Print Shop (150 Lexington Ave. at 30th St., NYC) label on back; handwritten in red ink on frame backing "24829"; 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.

2007.65.3