RONDIN FRANCOIS SEBASTIEN (active 1860s 70s) Officers with 1

Sale 2124 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 1,200

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

RONDIN, FRANCOIS SEBASTIEN (active 1860s-70s)
"Officers with 11-inch forward pivot gun on the deck of the U. S. S. Kearsarge." Albumen print, 5 3/4x8 1/2 inches (14.6x21.6 cm.), on the original mount, with Rondin's hand stamp on mount recto. 1864

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The Image of War, Volume IV, Fighting for Time, 147.

Another print of this image is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was included in their exhibition "Manet and the Civil War: The Battle of the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama," in 2003. It is reproduced in the accompanying catalogue.

Pictured in this photograph are Master J. R. Wheeler and Engineer S.L. Smith. The U.S. S. Kearsarge sunk the Alabama in a sea battle off Cherbourg in 1864.