Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Oliver H. Perry Esq. of the United States Navy.

Accession number: 
03897
Record number: 
03897-6
JCB call number: 
D816 T483
Image title: 
Oliver H. Perry Esq. of the United States Navy.
Creator 1: 
Samuel Lovett Waldo
Creator 1 dates: 
1783-1861
Creator 1 role: 
pinxit
Creator 2: 
David Edwin
Creator 2 dates: 
1776-1841
Creator 2 role: 
scu.
Place image published: 
[Philadelphia]
Image publisher: 
[Thomas Desilver]
Image date: 
[1816]
Image function: 
plate; following p. 168
Technique: 
stipple engraving
Image dimension height: 
8.2 cm.
Image dimension width: 
6.2 cm.
Page dimension height: 
17.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
10.3 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Portrait of Oliver Hazard Perry 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: 
Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie, oversaw the building of an American fleet during the spring and summer of 1813 and commanded the fleet in the victory over the British in September 1813.
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: 
United States--History--War of 1812
Subject headings: 
Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819