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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: KN-2587 (Color)

"Stephen Decatur at Tripoli",
during the boarding of a Tripolitan gunboat on 3 August 1803

Oil on canvas, 29" by 39", by William A.K. Martin (1817-1867), signed and dated by the artist, 1851.
It depicts Lieutenant Stephen Decatur in hand-to-hand combat with a Tripolitan.

Painting in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection. Gift of Friends of the U.S. Navy, 1941.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 121KB; 590 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-KN-2587

 

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14 November 2002