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TITLE: Commodore Hopkins, commander in chief of the American Fleet
CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 5336 (A size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-19219 (b&w film copy neg.)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Print shows Esek Hopkins, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform, standing, facing front, with sword drawn during naval engagement; ships in background display "Dont tread upon me" and "Liberty Tree - An appeal to God" flags.
MEDIUM: 1 print : mezzotint.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Published by Thos. Hart, 1776 Augt. 22.
NOTES:
Title from item.
[Page or plate] 97.
British Museum catalogue entry for this print notes the following attributions: "[?J.M. Will, after a plate by Corbutt]" and "Similar in manner to Nos. 5405 and 5406, signed Corbutt".
Reference copy in BIOG FILE.
Forms part of: British cartoon Prints collection (Library of Congress).
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5336
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 114.
SUBJECTS:
Hopkins, Esek,--1718-1802--Military service.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations--American.
FORMAT:
Portrait prints 1770-1780.
Mezzotints 1770-1780.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a20474 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a20474
CONTROL #: 2003675608
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