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Photo # NH 59543:  USS Monitor.  Watercolor by Oscar Parkes

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Monitor (1862-1862) --
Overall Views of the Ship


This page features, or provides links to, all our overall views of USS Monitor. The images referenced on this page are relatively accurate.

For additional overall (and rather inaccurate) views of this ship, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862) -- Overall Views of the Ship (Part II).

    For links to more pictorial coverage of USS Monitor, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862-1862) -- Selected Views.

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 59543

    USS Monitor (1862-62)


    Watercolor by Oscar Parkes.

    Courtesy of Dr. Oscar Parkes, 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 435 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 76324-KN (Color)

    USS Monitor (1862-62)


    Engraving published in Harper's Weekly, 22 March 1862.
    This copy has been hand-colored.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Line engraving, entitled "The Victorious Union Gunboat 'Monitor'", published by Caldwell & Co., 37 Park Row, New York.
    Drawn by J. Seitz and engraved by Ten Eyke, it depicts the ship as she appeared before angled plating was added to the base of her pilothouse.

    Courtesy of George H. Stegmann, New York.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 160KB; 740 x 490 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45968

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Watercolor in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy, circa the 1930s.
    This artwork appears to be based on the engraving seen in Photo # NH 58.

    Courtesy of the Civica Raccota Della Stampe.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45967

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Halftone reproduction of an artwork, depicting the ship at sea.

    Photograph was received from the Bureau of Construction and Repair in 1926.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45969

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Halftone reproduction of an artwork by Clary Ray, circa 1900.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 380 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58757

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     

    For additional overall (and rather inaccurate) views of this ship, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862) -- Overall Views of the Ship (Part II).

    For links to more pictorial coverage of USS Monitor, see:

  • USS Monitor (1862-1862) -- Selected Views.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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