
A Frigate at Anchor, Saluting a Nearby Yacht
Willem van de Velde I (d. 1693)
17th century · Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Frigate at Anchor, Saluting a Nearby Yacht
Willem van de Velde I (d. 1693)
17th century · Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Frigate at Sea
Pierre Puget (d. 1694)
17th century · Pen and black ink, gray wash, brown ink, over black chalk, on vellum. Mounted on board.
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Proserpine at anchor in Venice
Louis François Cassas (d. 1827)
ca. 1782 · Black chalk; framing lines in red chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Launching a Frigate
Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)
February 1, 1809 · Hand-colored etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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Launching a Frigate
Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)
[February 1, 1809], reprint · Hand-colored etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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Dish
Unrecorded maker
1830–35 · Lacy pressed glass
Cleared · Public Domain
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Salt
Unrecorded maker
1830–40 · Lacy pressed glass
Cleared · Public Domain
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Plate
Unrecorded maker
1830–45 · Lacy pressed glass
Cleared · Public Domain
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U.S. Frigate Constitution
Nathaniel Currier (d. 1888)
1838-1856 · Hand-colored lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
"He and I built a whole fleet of ships of every rig, from a frigate to a cutter, over at the carpenter's" (in "Good Words for 1862," p. 264)
John Pettie (d. 1893)
1862 · Wood engraving
In copyright
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Sa’ela’a (pendant)
Solomon Islands artist
19th–early 20th century · Tridacna shell, fiber, pigment
In copyright
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A Frigate
John Singer Sargent (d. 1925)
1925 · Graphite on green wove paper
In copyright
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