Fleet at Hampton Roads

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• ARTIST: Granville Perkins

• MEDIUM: Pencil drawing,

  DATE: c.1862

• EDITION SIZE: Paper size 5 1/16 x 9 1/4" (12.9 x 23.5 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Signed lower left "G. Perkins"<br><br> Note on old mat says "Fleet at Hampton Roads - Union Navy, Congress, Cumberland and others which were attacked by the Merrimack.<br><br> This image likely shows the arrival of the U.S. Fleet at Hampton Roads weeks or days before the Monitor - Merrimack battle. It is possible that this was used as a basis for a printed illustration in a newspaper. The Battle of Hampton Roads or battle between the U.S.S. Monitor and CSS Virginia (ex. USS Merrimac) was the most noted and possibly the most important naval battle of the American Civil War. It was the first battle between ironclad warships. The battle took place over two days, March 8–9, 1862. The first day the CSS Virginia ruled the seas as the USS Monitor had not yet arrived on the scene. The Virginia destroyed two major seagoing naval ships, The USS Congress and USS Cumberland and drove the USS Minnesota aground. Falling tides and nightfall forces the Confederates to break off the attack until the next day. The evening the USS Monitor arrived and took up station to protect the Minnesota. The next morning the Virginia arrived back on the scene to finish off the Minnesota and found the USS Monitor awaiting her. The battle between these two vessels went on for hours and they fought, shot from each side ricocheting off of the other. In the end both sides each side claimed victory.

• ADDITIONAL INFO: Signed in pencil, lower left.

• CONDITION: Good condition, some soiling.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Naval, Nautical & Marine , Watercolors, Drawings & Paintings