Frigate America and Frigate La Reine Blanche - 19th Century - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame is hemmed in by the

is hemmed in by the granite shoulders of the financial district's early skyscrapers

capturing that early 1862 morning when Foote's ironclads exchanged fire with Confederate gunboats above the bluffs of Fort Wright

the words themselves an act of stubborn cartographic faith

the war's grammar conducted in low voices and pencil marks

Every traced cone of darkness here feels less like astronomy than liturgy

Frigate America and Frigate La Reine Blanche - 19th Century - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame is hemmed in by theFrigate America and Frigate La Reine Blanche 19th Century Vintage Maritime Print a stately mid century lithograph of two great sailing frigates running side by side under full canvas the American beside the French La Reine Blanche, their hulls heeled into a courteous trans Atlantic rivalry rendered with all the rigging an engraver's eye could count. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th century