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Edward Duncan - The Explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri
Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton / Edward Duncan / George Pechell Mends / Adam Cuerden
between 1843 and 1850
- Classification
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID pga.05978. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
"The Explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri, at Gibralter [sic], Aug. 26th, 1843" - Chromolithograph showing the crew of H.M.S. Malabar (foreground, left) watching as USS Missouri explodes and burns in the distance from accidental fire, after completing first trans-Atlantic voyage of a U.S. steam powered ship the day prior.
Other text on image:
Other text on image:
Drawn by E. Duncan, from a sketch made on the spot by Lieut. G.P. Mands, T.G. Dutton lith.; MALABAR; Day & Haghe Lithrs to the Queen. To Captn Sir George Sartorius and the Officers of the H.M.S. Malabar--this print is respectfully dedicated by their obedient servant, Edmund Fry London, Ackermann & Co Strand, Foster. Fenchurch Street _ Plymouth Edmund Fry
The original drawing by Duncan can be found here:
