About the Artwork
The United States and the Macedonian
1815
Samuel Seymour (Artist) American, active 1797-1822 Thomas Birch (Artist) American, 1779-1851
Engraving printed in black ink, colored by hand
Overall: 19 7/8 × 25 7/8 inches (50.5 × 65.7 cm) Framed: 27 1/2 × 34 1/2 × 1 inches (69.9 × 87.6 × 2.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
57.133
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left: Painted by T. Birch, A.C.S.A.
Inscribed, lower left center: The Macedonian had 36 killed and 63 wounded Inscribed, lower center: Fought Octr. 25, 1812 Inscribed, lower right center: The United States had 5 killed and 7 wounded Inscribed, lower right: Engraved by S. Seymour Inscribed, lower margin: THIS REPRESENTATION OF THE U.S. FRIGATE UNITED STATES, STEPHEN DECATUR ESQR. COMMANDER, CAPTURING HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, JOHN S. CARDEN ESQR. COMMANDER | Is respectfully inscribed to Capt Stephen Decatur his Officers and Gallant Crew by their devoted humble Servant | James Webster.
Printed, in center lower margin: [Profile portrait of Decatur]
Provenance
(Argosy Book Shop)
1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Early American Prints. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1957, no. 125a.
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Samuel Seymour; after Thomas Birch, The United States and the Macedonian, 1815, engraving printed in black ink, colored by hand. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 57.133.
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