![Item #10052 Tripoli[:] Peace Concluded June 3. 1805. Tripoli blocaded [sic] July 21 1804 by Com...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10052_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1772662384)
A vivid watercolor depiction of the U.S. Navy’s first bombardment of Tripoli in the summer of 1804, housed in a lovely custom frame incorporating an early molding and ornamental mat. In the foreground the American squadron commanded by Commodore Edward Preble bombards the city. In the right foreground is the USS.....
A charming original watercolor view of the home of Captain Winborn Adams Sanborn and its environs, by important New Hampshire artist and prominent Battle of Gettysburg historian John B. Bachelder. Taken from a somewhat elevated vantage point and overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee with the White Mountains and its foothills in the.....
![Item #9038 [Schoolgirl still life drawing of fruit compote.]. Louise Barbaroux, artist](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9038_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716216427)
An unusual and very pleasing graphite drawing of a fruit compote, probably executed by a schoolgirl in Louisville, Kentucky, just a few years before the Civil War. Resting on a rectangular base, the scallop-rimmed compote in this drawing holds pears, peaches, what appears to be a small melon, and a......
![Item #3507 [Rosalind Gives Orlando Her Necklace]. Émile-Antoine Bayard](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3507_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1672695752)
The elegant, original illustration for the frontispiece to the International Shakespeare edition of As You Like It (London: Cassell & Co., 1887). The moment depicted here occurs in Act 1, Scene 2, when Rosalind gives her necklace to Orlando for his gallantry following his wrestling match with Charles, saying “Gentleman.....
An original portrait, drawn from life, of leading lawyer, diplomat, and orator Joseph Choate, who helped shape international laws of war, litigated some of the most important American legal cases in the nineteenth century, and became an extremely popular and influential ambassador in the United Kingdom. This bust-length, graphite portrait.....
Two Civil War lithographs from this rare series of six, these examples hand-colored and enhanced by Winslow Homer himself in the very year that he created his first painting (The Sharpshooter) and well before he turned to the regular use of watercolor. One of these two lithographs—The Baggage Train—was loaned.....
![Item #7954 [View of Mount Shasta.] “Mountain Pass Looking Northeast” [verso note]. William Keith](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7954_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695843110)
A lovely watercolor view looking northeast through a mountain pass toward Mount Shasta, by famed California artist William Keith. Keith (1838–1911) born in Scotland, arrived in San Francisco in 1859, working as a wood engraver. He studied painting with Samuel Marsden Brookes and first exhibited watercolors in 1866. Much of.....
A delightful original work of documentary folk art depicting the construction of the ill-fated Chenango Canal Extension, intended to connect the New York canal system with the vast coal fields of Pennsylvania and built in part by a notoriously corrupt contractor later dubbed the “canal boss” for his prominent role.....