U.S.S. CONSTITUTION, also known as ‘Old Ironsides,’ Off Long Wharf, Boston, Massachusetts, 1803
Gouache on Paper 8 ¾” x 13 ½”

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Flying the broad pennant of Commodore Edward Prebble, the U.S.S. CONSTITUTION lies hove to near Boston’s Long Wharf, in August, 1803. She is to head a new Mediterranean Squadron to conduct the Naval War with Tripoli and counter the depredations of the other Barbary States against American Merchant Shipping.