Francois Sebastien Rondin
1864
Officers with 11-inch forward pivot gun on the deck of the U. S. S. Kearsarge

Albumen print
5 3/4 x 8 1/2 in (14.6 x 21.6 cm)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Oct 15, 2007, #2124, Lot 43)
 
The Image of War, Volume IV, Fighting for Time, 147.
 
Another print of this image is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was included in their exhibition "Manet and the Civil War: The Battle of the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama," in 2003. It is reproduced in the accompanying catalogue.
 
Pictured in this photograph are Master J. R. Wheeler and Engineer S.L. Smith. The U.S. S. Kearsarge sunk the Alabama in a sea battle off Cherbourg in 1864.
 
LL/23151