COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03897
Record number:
03897-1
JCB call number:
D816 T483
Image title:
Stephen Decatur Esqe. (of the United States Navy.)
Creator 1:
Gilbert Stuart
Creator 1 dates:
1755-1828
Creator 2:
David Edwin
Creator 2 dates:
1776-1841
Place image published:
[Philadelphia]
Image publisher:
[Thomas Desilver]
Image date:
[1816]
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
stipple engraving
Image dimension height:
9.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.6 cm
Page dimension height:
17.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
10.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Portrait of Stephen Decatur in military attire.
Source creator:
Thomson, John Lewis
Source Title:
Historical sketches of the late war, between the United States and Great Britain ...
Source place of publication:
Philadelphia
Source publisher:
Published by Thomas Desilver. Also by M. Carey and A. Small ...
Source date:
1816
notes:
This portrait of Decatur was engraved after a painting by Gilbert Stuart. Renowned for his courageous conquest of Tripoli in 1804, Decatur garnered further fame by capturing the British frigate, Macedonian, in 1812 and by brokering a peace treaty with Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli in 1815.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820
Subject headings:
United States--History--War of 1812
Stephen Decatur Esqe. (of the United States Navy.)
