Keywords: outdoor NH 59003-KN (Color). "Gun-Boats Fitting Out at Cincinnati, Ohio, for Government Service on the Mississippi" Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861. This example has been hand-tinted in water colors. The scene represents the conversion of the first "timber-clad" gunboats for the Western Gunboat Flotilla, in mid-1861. These ships were Conestoga, Lexington and Tyler, two of which are depicted here. Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. (2016/05/29). NH 59003-KN (Color). "Gun-Boats Fitting Out at Cincinnati, Ohio, for Government Service on the Mississippi" Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861. This example has been hand-tinted in water colors. The scene represents the conversion of the first "timber-clad" gunboats for the Western Gunboat Flotilla, in mid-1861. These ships were Conestoga, Lexington and Tyler, two of which are depicted here. Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. (2016/05/29). |