Frigate America and Frigate La Reine Blanche - 19th Century - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame A study in the sculptor

A study in the sculptor as monument-maker

civic hand of remembrance

Every traced cone of darkness here feels less like astronomy than liturgy

and the artifacts of American local memory

the words themselves an act of stubborn cartographic faith

Frigate America and Frigate La Reine Blanche - 19th Century - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame A study in the sculptorFrigate America and Frigate La Reine Blanche 19th Century Vintage Maritime Print a stately mid century lithograph of two great sailing frigates running side by side under full canvas the American beside the French La Reine Blanche, their hulls heeled into a courteous trans Atlantic rivalry rendered with all the rigging an engraver's eye could count. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th century