International Naval Rendezvous at Hampton Roads 1893 - Vintage Maritime Print republic paddlewheelers churning the brown river

paddlewheelers churning the brown river at Vicksburg

The image carries the cold geometry of earthworks and naval bombardment

looping through their epicycles like clockwork pilgrims

Major General Winfield Scott

International Naval Rendezvous at Hampton Roads 1893 - Vintage Maritime Print republic paddlewheelers churning the brown riverInternational Naval Rendezvous at Hampton Roads 1893 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph tableau of the Columbian Naval Review, where the ironclads of a dozen nations rode at anchor off Old Point Comfort in salute to the New World's four hundredth year. The print catches that Gilded Age peculiarity: warships dressed in signal flags like debutantes, their black hulls softened by the haze of a Virginia spring. About the Source Bella Frye sources