Destruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print mixology art print here corralled into the elliptical

here corralled into the elliptical geometry of a Victorian orrery diagram

Manifest Destiny rendered as street-fight

Abraham Lincoln 195 belongs to the vast iconography that accumulated around the sixteenth president — a portrait study reproduced and recirculated until the long face

where the ironclads of a dozen nations rode at anchor off Old Point Comfort in salute to the New World's four hundredth year

House of the First Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas

Destruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print mixology art print here corralled into the ellipticalDestruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 Vintage Maritime Print a Civil War lithograph rendered in the smoke and spectacle tradition, capturing the moment the ironclad CSS Virginia the Confederacy's reborn Merrimac was scuttled and set ablaze off Craney Island rather than surrendered to Union hands. The print stages her death throes against the Elizabeth River, fire blooming from her casemate like a final, defiant signal flare. About