Capt. Paul Jones, From an Original Drawing taken from the Life, on board the Serapis

by Thomas Macklin

$1,800 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

London: Thos. Macklin, No. 1, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Oct. 22, 1779. Engraving, 8.5” x 5.625”; sheet size, 10.325” x 7.25”. CONDITION: Very good. An engraved portrait of the “father of the American Navy,” made just a month after his victory over the HMS Serapis.This full-length portrait, described by the Society of Cincinnati as

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