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19th C. Oil-On-Panel Ship Portrait

Ca. 1870-1890 oil-on-board portrait of the three-masted American frigate of war, USS Constitution. Built in Hartt's shipyard in Boston of specially picked timber from 2,000 trees, armed with cannon cast in Rhode Island, her hull sheathed with copper made by Paul Revere, the Constitution was so strongly built that in her historic 1812 defeat of the HMS Guerriere 600 miles off Nova Scotia, legend says the Guerriere's cannon balls just bounced off her white oak sides, earning her the name "Old Ironsides."  Depicting the Constitution all sales aloft, this portrait is oil on a single pine board that has cracked and been reglued.  23" x 32".  

$3,400