Clipper Ship Red Jacket Off Cape Horn - Vintage Maritime Print pilot quote wall art in marble and shadow

in marble and shadow

where the Union's low-slung cheesebox-on-a-raft trades fire with the casemated Virginia across the brackish chop of Hampton Roads

and a hand-chalked break were the working language of the green-felt parlor

Dec 13th 1862 — a documentary engraving of the December assault on Marye's Heights

and the line between athlete and infantryman had not yet been drawn

Clipper Ship Red Jacket Off Cape Horn - Vintage Maritime Print pilot quote wall art in marble and shadowClipper Ship Red Jacket Off Cape Horn Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph that catches the famed Boston built clipper at her most punishing latitude, hull heeled hard against the gray swell as ice laden rigging strains toward the gale. The scene belongs to that brief, glorious decade when American clippers raced the Horn for Liverpool wool and bragging rights, and Red Jacket held the record. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime