Painting, Watercolor - "The Arkansaw"

 
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watercolor - "The Arkansaw"
Painting, Watercolor - "The Arkansaw"
watercolor - "The Arkansaw"
watercolor - "The Arkansaw"

Painting, Watercolor - "The Arkansaw"

Object number1981.039.00
Date1862
Mediumpaper, watercolor
Dimensions9 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (24.1 x 32.4 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
Terms
  • Watercolor
  • Painting
DescriptionWater color painting on paper, folkart. "The Arkansaw", a CSS ironclad wooden ship with five cannons, all firing. Large confederate flag (1st National) flying at front. Small confederate flag pennant flying in rear. Smokestack, with smoke bellowing out in center. Painted by Isaac N. Brown, the ship's commander.

Marked: "The Arkansaw Blown Up Six Miles Above Baton Rouge, August, 1862". On rear hand tinted steel engraving of two young girls in garden type scene. In German, French and English is written "The First Confedence of the Heart".

The C.S.S. Arkansas was built in Memphis, Tennessee in October, 1861. It was captained by Isaac N. Brown. It was sunk by its own men to keep it out of Union hands in August, 1862.

The sunken ironclad was found in 1981 in the Mississippi River north of Baton Rouge.
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