The Navy of the United States, 1897 [graphic] / W. Louis Sonntag, Jr.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Sonntag, W. Louis (William Louis), 1870-

Contributor:

Harper & Brothers.

Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

naval ships--United States.

Physical Description:

2 photomechanical reproductions ; 42 x 113.5 cm. or smaller

Contained In:

New York and New Jersey architecture collection.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : Harper & Bros., c1896, 1897.

Notes:

Two offprints, including a reproduction of a watercolor(?) by W. Louis Sonntag, Jr., c.1896, from Harper's Weekly, June 19, 1897, copyright 1897 Harper & Brothers, plus an accompanying "Key and Explanatory Table". The table gives all the ships by name with a number corresponding to a sketch of the boat in the key. Classes of ships included are first-class battle-ships, second-class battle-ships, monitors, armored cruisers, partially protected and protected cruisers, cruisers, gunboats, harbor-defence ram, and torpedo-boats, torpedo-boat catchers and special types.

W. Louis Sonntag, Jr. is listed in Who was who in American art as a painter, and member of the American Watercolor Society in 1898, suggesting the original medium for the image. Also listed is William Louis Sonntag, 1822-1900, the more widely known American landscape painter. The illustration here appears to be by the son.

Forms part of: New York and New Jersey architecture collection.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of William H. Tietjen,