File:W Elmes, The Brilliant Achievement of the Shannon ... in Boarding and Capturing the United States Frigate Chesapeake off Boston, June 1st 1813 in Fifteen Minutes (1813).jpg

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The Brilliant Achievement of the Shannon ... in Boarding and Capturing the United States Frigate Chesapeake off Boston, June 1st 1813 in Fifteen Minutes.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
W. Elmes, artist and engraver.
Title
The Brilliant Achievement of the Shannon ... in Boarding and Capturing the United States Frigate Chesapeake off Boston, June 1st 1813 in Fifteen Minutes.
Description
A depiction of the naval battle between Royal Navy frigate H.M.S. Shannon and the American frigate U.S.S. Chesapeake off the coast of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in June 1813.
Date August 1813.
Medium Aquatint.
Dimensions height: 410 mm (16.14 in); width: 518 mm (20.39 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,410U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,518U174789
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institution QS:P195,Q1199924
Current location
Greenwich, London, England, UK.
Accession number
PAH8127.
References [1].
Source/Photographer Prints and Drawings Catalogue, National Maritime Museum, London.

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