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THOMAS MORAN The White Squadron's Farewell Salute to the Body of John Ericsson, New York Bay, August 23, 1890.
Etching on Japan paper, 1898-99. 580x843 mm; 23x33 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right, and signed by Edward Moran in pencil, lower left. With the submarine remarqué lower left. A superb impression of this large, scarce etching.
After the same-titled painting by Edward Moran now at the U.S. Naval Academy, Anapolis.
John Ericsson (1803-1889) was a Swedish-born inventor and engineer who emigrated to New York in 1839. He designed numerous ship, engine and propeller prototypes for the U.S. Navy, the most famous of which was the USS Monitor, an iron-clad ship he designed in 1862, which helped save the U.S. Navy from destruction by the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. Following Ericsson's wish to be buried in Sweden, the U.S. Navy sent his remains aboard the USS Baltimore in 1890. This scene shows the fleet departing from New York harbor with the Swedish and American flags set at half-mast on the USS Baltimore. Morand/Friese 75.
