Framed Antique Civil War Naval Battle Engraving "Capture of New Orleans" w/ COA

Description

- Framed -
Antique Civil War Naval Battle Engraving
Capture of New Orleans:
The Fleet Passing Forts on the Mississippi
Title: Capture of New Orleans: The Fleet Passing Forts on the Mississippi
Additional Title: Mortar Vessels in the Distance Shelling the Forts
Creation Year: ca. 1862
Creator Names: W. Ridgeway - Engraver;
Charles
Parsons, Artist.
Dimensions: 8 x 5-1/2 in.; frame, about 12 x 16-1/2 in.
Condition: Not examined out of frame but appears in very good condition.
Notes:
A
n elevated view of the intense fighting at the mouth of the Mississippi River. For five days the battle raged as the Union fleet under Admiral David Farragut bombarded the passage forts of St. Philip and Jackson which were blocking his passage to New Orleans. In the end the Confederates could no longer stand the constant bombardment of Farragut's big guns and the surrender of the passage forts marked the end for New orleans as a Confederate stronghold. U. S. Navy ships present and identified include (from left) : Varuna (fighting through iron-clad gunboats), Brooklyn, Pawnee, Hartford (flag ship, fire raft alongside), Pensacola, Mississippi, Louisiana (iron plated battery exploding) and Manassas (Ram).
Biography:
Parsons, Charles (1821-1910)
Name: Parsons, Charles (1821-1910)
Born: 05/08/1821
Birthplace: Rowland's Castle, Hampshire, England
Died: 11/09/1910
Death Location: Brooklyn, NY
Residence: Hampshire, England
New York, NY
Nationality: English/American
Occupation: Lithographer
Relations: Apprenticed to George Endicott
Notes: Emigrated to the US at age 9.
Apprenticed to Endicott at age 12
Became regular employee two years later
Head of art department of Harper & Ives 1861-1889
Elected Associate of the National Assembley, 1862
Active member of the American Watercolor Society
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