British and American Gunboats in Action on Lake Borgne | Thomas Lyde Hornbrook | 19th Century
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Small boats crowd the water around a line of armed vessels, their figures and oars creating a dense pattern beneath the ships’ tall masts. Smoke hangs close to the surface, softening the boundary between the opposing craft and the distant shore. Hornbrook’s scene depicts the fighting on Lake Borgne in December 1814, when British boats attacked an American gunboat flotilla before the New Orleans campaign. The low viewpoint gives the small craft a prominent role within the wider expanse of water and sky.
Frame:
A black solid-wood frame with a 2.4mm snow-white bevel-cut mount, supplied ready to hang.
Print:
Premium heavyweight matte fine art paper, printed with water-based inks. The artwork fills the mount opening without an additional white print border.
Sizes:
16 × 12 inches — 40.6 × 30.5 cm
28 × 20 inches — 71.1 × 50.8 cm
