File:The sinking of the "Cumberland(") by the iron clad "Merrimac", off Newport News Va. March 8th 1862 - sketched by F. Newman, Newport News, Va. LCCN2001705847.jpg

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English: Title: The sinking of the "Cumberland["] by the iron clad "Merrimac", off Newport News Va. March 8th 1862 / sketched by F. Newman, Newport News, Va. Abstract: 1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 25.5 x 35.7 cm.
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Author Currier & Ives.
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Caption continues: The "Cumberland" went down with all her Flags flying: destroyed, but not conquered. Her gallant Commander Lieut. Morris, calling to his crew "Give them a Broadside boys, as she goes."
Traces of the copyright statement are visible, though most was rubbed off the stone.
Inscribed in ink on verso: 390108.
Stamped on verso: L.C. Fine Arts Division.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5924


Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
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virginia (ironclad); cumberland (frigate); merrimack (frigate); armored vessels; confederate; battleships; union; naval warfare; united states; history; civil war; naval operations; lithographs; hand-colored
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United States
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Lithographs--Hand-colored--1860-1870

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