Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac 1889 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Canvas Wrap or the kind of library

or the kind of library that still smells faintly of pipe smoke

every gunboat plume etched with the urgency of dispatch

The aged paper tone and the hand-pulled chromolithographic color are preserved in the print

The plate carries the bearing of a man who believed himself the rightful commander of a revolution

and the artifacts of American memory

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac 1889 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Canvas Wrap or the kind of libraryBattle of the Monitor and Merrimac 1889 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph rendering of Hampton Roads on that smoke choked March morning in 1862, when the Union's cheesebox on a raft traded iron blows with the Confederate ram and rendered every wooden navy in the world obsolete by sundown. The scene crackles with cannon flash and churned water, drawn nearly three decades later by a hand still convinced the duel mattered. About the Source Bella