![Item #134 [THE SLOOP HORNET FIGHTS PIRATES AND DISEASE, 1824]. 2 pieces](https://jameskochan.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/134.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1784036578)
Dr. Samuel Anderson, autograph letter signed (ALS), 4 January 1824, 1 page, 5.25 x 7.75 inches, in full "Sir, you will confer a favour by furnishing the medicines named in the enclosed requisition, S[amuel] Anderson, Surg. U.S. Ship Hornet"; with referenced requisition of medicines required, Anderson autograph document signed (ADS).....
Great Britain: c. 1906. Simkin, Richard. [UNIFORMS AND MEDALS]. Queen Victoria’s British Army by Richard Simkin. Large scrapbook in oblong, folio format, containing numerous prints of British Army regiments and their uniforms by military artist Richard Simkin from his famous series, ranging from the 1880s to 1905. The chromolithograph prints.....
Copperplate on paper, 2.25 inch-diameter, engraved portrait on sheet of paper, underneath window mat with gilded brass edging within a carved and painted oval frame. Joseph Whipple (1738-1816) was a noted Portsmouth merchant and the brother of William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence. He served briefly as a......
Copperplate on paper, 3.5 inches (view), within carved frame. William Rodman (1757-1824) served as a justice of the peace in Pennsylvania, 1791-1800, a state senator, 1804-1808, and as a representative to the U.S. Congress, 1811-1813. Provenance: deaccessioned from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2013.
Watercolor on card, 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches (view) within gilded brass mat inside original, carved, oval frame (4 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. overall). Portrait of an unidentified officer of the elite 5th Battalion of the 60th or "Royal American" Regiment of Foot, circa 1803. He wears the.....
Ink on illustration board, 27 x 19 3/8 inches; signed "Copeland/66" on lower right; conservation matted. A young teen stands proudly before the Williamsburg Magazine wearing his new "LIBERTY OR DEATH" frock and holding one of the blue-painted trade guns issued to his company from the Virginia State Store. Peter.....