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Noord Americaaniche Flage
Title
Noord Americaaniche Flage.
Publication
[Washington, D.C.] : [United States Navy], [between 1925 and 1959]
Physical Description
1 photographs : color ; 49.0 x 31 cm
Medium
paper
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides Folio 2019 224: On sheet 49.0 x 30.4 cm, mounted on paper board 60.5 x 50.6 cm. On verso, black ink stamped: Property of the curator for the Department of the Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Washington, 25, D.C.; typed sheet afixed with text: KN700 11/27/59 Painting. American flags painted by Dutch officer at Texel when Serapis and Alliance entered port after the battle between Bon Homme RIchard and Serapis ... Official U.S. Navy Photo. Released, U.S. Naval Photographic Center; U.S. Naval Station, Washington 25 D.C. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title from item.
Original painting: Oil on canvas, 18" x 15.25", by Midshipman George W. Campbell, USN, after a Dutch artist. Signed and dated by artist, 1925. Painting in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection, ACC. # 25.9.
Summary
Photographic reproduction of 2 paintings made by George W. Campbell in 1925 while a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy after the contemporary (October 1779) paintiings by a Dutch artist in Texel. The flags were flown by the United States Navy ships Alliance and Serapis in the Port of Texel, Holland, October 4-5, 1779. The top flag flew on the Alliance. The bottom flew on the Serapis; it has tri-colored stripes and eight-pointed stars in three rows of 4, 5, and 4 stars.
Format
Images
Language
Dutch
Added to Catalog
December 16, 2021
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Genre/Form
Photographs.
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