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The United States and the Macedonian

Samuel Seymour , Artist After Thomas Birch , Artist
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About the Artwork

The United States and the Macedonian

1815

Samuel Seymour (Artist) American, active 1797-1822 After Thomas Birch (Artist) American, 1779-1851

Engraving printed in black ink, colored by hand

Overall: 19 7/8 × 25 7/8 inches (50.5 × 65.7 cm) Framed: 27 1/2 × 34 1/2 × 1 inches (69.9 × 87.6 × 2.5 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

57.133

Public Domain

Markings

Signed, in plate, lower left: Painted by T. Birch, A.C.S.A.

Inscribed, lower left center: The Macedonian had 36 killed and 63 wounded Inscribed, lower center: Fought Octr. 25, 1812 Inscribed, lower right center: The United States had 5 killed and 7 wounded Inscribed, lower right: Engraved by S. Seymour Inscribed, lower margin: THIS REPRESENTATION OF THE U.S. FRIGATE UNITED STATES, STEPHEN DECATUR ESQR. COMMANDER, CAPTURING HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, JOHN S. CARDEN ESQR. COMMANDER | Is respectfully inscribed to Capt Stephen Decatur his Officers and Gallant Crew by their devoted humble Servant | James Webster.

Printed, in center lower margin: [Profile portrait of Decatur]

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(Argosy Book Shop);
1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Early American Prints. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1957, no. 125a.

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Samuel Seymour; after Thomas Birch, The United States and the Macedonian, 1815, engraving printed in black ink, colored by hand. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 57.133.

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