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Lot Number: 153
Click for a Printable PageSign-in to Bid or Register to Bid Estimate Range: $4,000 - $5,000 |
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c. 1865 Civil War Painting Titled: “Naval Engagement Between The Kearsarge and The Alabama” Artist Signed “R. E. Babson”, After the 1864 Painting by Louis Le Breton |
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c. 1865 Civil War, Watercolor Painting titled, “Naval Engagement Between The Kearsarge & The Alabama,” Artist Signed “R. E. Babson,” After the 1864 painting by Louis Le Breton, Framed, Choice Extremely Fine. This large beautiful Watercolor Painting on Artists Paper, measuring 13.25” x 20” (by sight), framed to fully to 20.25” x 25.5”, and is Artist Signed, “R. E. Babson” in black, at the lower right corner; After the 1864 lithograph by “Lebreton” (France). Professional modern framed in an ornate Civil War period style, the painting viewed through protective special UV Plexiglas. Overall, an exceptional museum quality presentation, which is ready to hang on display.This Artwork is extensively detailed and vivid in its rich color. It depicts the Civil War battle off the coast of France between the Union Navy USS Kearsarge and the Confederate Navy CSS Alabama. This artwork has extensive highlights of the sailors present on the decks of both ships, with rescue and evacuation boats in the water, the white-capped choppy ocean waves and billowing clouds of smoke linger from the cannon fire. The Confederate Flag flies on the Alabama as she sinks, while on the Kearsarge, the Stars and Stripes fly above the Confederate flag. The scene is bright and clean with smoke from the battle in the skies above the ships. The watercolor is tipped to a larger heavy poster board, which serves to present Hand-lettered Captions below the image. The poster board has a sealed break at the bottom right edge reaching just to the hand-painted final letter “E” of “KEARSARGE” of the caption, yet none of which is anywhere near or ever touches the original painted artwork. This choice historical Civil War period Watercolor Painting being taken after the original design for the famous engraved 1864 French lithograph by Louis Le Breton. The C.S.S. Alabama was a screw Sloop-of-war built for the Confederacy in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Co., Liverpool, England. Under Captain Raphael Semmes, the Alabama plundered U.S. merchant ships for over two years, capturing and burning ships in the North Atlantic and intercepting American grain ships bound for Europe. The American sloop-of-war Kearsarge, under the direction of Captain Winslow, engaged the Alabama as it was leaving Cherbourg, France, and sank it on June 19, 1864. While Kearsarge rescued most of Alabama's survivors, Captain Semmes and 41 others were picked up by the British yacht Deerhound and escaped to England. Provenance Ex: Early American History Auction, August 25, 2007 where it sold for $3,540; Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II. Inscriptions below the scene are Signed, on stone, lower right: LEBRETON; printed, lower left: "ALABAMA" Capt.n Semmes; center: Lebreton Dessinateur aux Cartes et Plans de la Marine; right: "KEARSARGE" Capt.n Winslow.; center: COMBAT NAVAL ENTRE LE KEARSARGE & L'ALABAMA/Livre le 19 Juin 1864 en vue de Cherbourg, (France). An original copy in the collection of the Hood Museum of Art, at Dartmouth. |
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Lot Number: 153
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Estimate Range: $4,000 - $5,000 |
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