EditorialLieutenant Nelson. The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B., from his Lo. T. Cadell & W. Davies: London, 1809. Lieutenant Nelson volunteering to board a prize in a violent gale, Nov.20. 1777'. The boarding of an American privateer. Image taken from The L...
EditorialAudacity of Kidd. Illustration depicting William Kidd, known as Captain Kidd; the Scottish merchant and privateer, turned pirate. Captain William Kidd, and others of the pirates or buccaneers who ravaged the seas, the islands, and the continents of Ame...
EditorialThe Privateer, plate twelve from Protuberences and Cardiaques. Kurt Seligmann; American, born Switzerland, 1900-1962. Date: 1933. Dimensions: 350 x 286 mm (plate); 494 x 377 mm (sheet). Etching, aquatint and roulette on ivory wove paper. Origin: United...
EditorialCaptain Robert W. Eastwick (1772-1865), c.1830 Three-quarter length standing figure, looking left, with left arm resting on the base of a pillar. He served in all parts of the East, from the Persian Gulf to Australia, and voyaged also to the West Indie...
EditorialPrimula auricula varieties: Cockup's Eclipse and Privateer. Painted by Reinagle Sr., engraved by Stadler. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Dr. Robert Thornton's "Temple of Flora," Lottery edition, London, 1812. The illustrations were a m...
EditorialRobert Surcouf, after a contempory drawing. Robert Surcouf (12 December 1773 – 8 July 1827) was a famous French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, and again from 1807 to 1808. In France, Navy Minister T...
Editorialle duel victorieux de Surcouf avec douze officiers Prussiens. After a drawing by Frederic Regamey. Robert Surcouf (12 December 1773 – 8 July 1827) was a famous French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, ...
EditorialCaptain Robert W. Eastwick (1772-1865), c.1830 Three-quarter length standing figure, looking left, with left arm resting on the base of a pillar. He served in all parts of the East, from the Persian Gulf to Australia, and voyaged also to the West Indie...
EditorialCaptain Henry Morgan before Panama (which) he took from the Spaniards', in 1671. Henry Morgan (ca. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was an Admiral of the English Royal Navy, a privateer, and a pirate/buccanneer who made a name for himself during activities in ...
EditorialLieutenant Nelson. The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B., from his Lo. T. Cadell & W. Davies: London, 1809. Lieutenant Nelson volunteering to board a prize in a violent gale, Nov.20. 1777'. The boarding of an American privateer. Image taken from The L...
EditorialAudacity of Kidd. Illustration depicting William Kidd, known as Captain Kidd; the Scottish merchant and privateer, turned pirate. Captain William Kidd, and others of the pirates or buccaneers who ravaged the seas, the islands, and the continents of Ame...
EditorialJasper Ely Cropsey, ca. 1794, Watercolor on ivory, 2 1/2 x 1 7/8 in. (6.4 x 4.8 cm), Paintings, Ebenezer Mack (active 1785?1808), The sitter (1768-1813) was a sea captain and privateer. He married Magdalena Ackerman in 1794.
EditorialPrimula auricula varieties: Cockup's Eclipse and Privateer. Painted by Reinagle Sr., engraved by Stadler. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Dr. Robert Thornton's "Temple of Flora," Lottery edition, London, 1812. The illustrations were a m...
EditorialHUDDY LED FROM PRISON TO BE HANGED; Joshua Huddy was the commander of a New Jersey Patriot militia unit and a privateer ship during the American Revolutionary War, US, USA, 1870s engraving.