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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
American Frigate and Barbary Vessel Painting
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

American Frigate and Barbary Vessel Painting

Object numberMO 1961.139
Name Painting
Artist
Dateca. 1804
Mediumwatercolor on paper
Dimensionspainting H 9 5/8 in x W 10 5/8 in (24.4 cm x 27 cm )
 mat H 15 1/4 in x W 15 3/4 in (38.7 cm x 40 cm )
DescriptionA primitive watercolor painting showing the ca. 1804 engagement between an unidentified American frigate and a ship from Tripolitania, one of the Barbary states of North Africa. It depicts a side view of a three-masted American frigate in the left foreground, with sails furled and an American flag flying at the stern. At the right middle ground is a Barbary vessel, with both sails and oars, flying a red flag with a single yellow horizontal stripe. A mountainous shoreline is shown in the background. The painting is unsigned and untitled, but is apparently contemporaneous.

The painting is mounted in a white window mat.
Label TextDuring the early nineteenth century American warships were sent to the Mediterranean to end illegal seizures of U.S. merchant ships and crews by armed vessels from the Barbary states.

This painting was presented to Franklin Roosevelt in December 1938 by Emil Hurja, Washington, DC.
Additional Details
Credit LineEstate of Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesUnited States Navy Materials (National Archives Identifier 782673)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.
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