Frigate America and Frigate La Reine Blanche - 19th Century - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame Each elevation traces interlocking stone

Each elevation traces interlocking stone courses keyed against the Atlantic — a fortress disguised as a lighthouse

and the artifacts of American local memory

capturing that early 1862 morning when Foote's ironclads exchanged fire with Confederate gunboats above the bluffs of Fort Wright

May 3 1765 (1852) — an 1852 engraving reaching back nearly a century to recover the moment Henry rose against the Stamp Act

is hemmed in by the granite shoulders of the financial district's early skyscrapers

Frigate America and Frigate La Reine Blanche - 19th Century - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame Each elevation traces interlocking stoneFrigate 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