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Title

Last of the Wooden Navy

Authors

Files

Collection

0703: Rosanna Blake Collection

Institution

Marshall University Archives and Special Collections

Date

1907

Description

Chromolithograph of Last of the Wooden Navy, by G. B. Matthews, This chromolithograph entitled the Last of the Wooden Navy was published by A. B. Graham of Washington, D.C., and based on the 1907 painting by George B. Matthews from a sketch by H.B. Littlepage, a sailor on the Merrimac. It depicts a battle between the Confederate ironclad Merrimac and the wooden US fleet at Hampton Roads, Va., Mar. 8, 1862.

Format

Print (Visual Work)

Place

Hampton Roads, VA

Subject

Subject Terms: Civil War, 1861-1865 Confederate States of America CSS Virginia (Merrimac) Last of the Wooden Navy Naval prints Naval warfare
People: Matthews, G. B. Littlepage, H. B.

Type

Still Image

Usage Rights

Copyright not evaluated.

Identifier

2006.0703.266

Recommended Citation

"Last of the Wooden Navy" (1907). 0703: Rosanna Blake Collection, 1818-2000. 103.
https://mds.marshall.edu/blake_collection/103