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Title:
Battle of Kearsarge and Alabama
Artist:
Manet, Edouard
Year:
1864
Medium
:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
145 x 130 cm
Location:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
Copyright:
Public Domain
Periods:
French
Impressionist Artists
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Celia, Community Moderator - 1/9/2014
This is actually a very exciting story of the defeat of the most notorious ship of the Confederate Navy and its amazing Captain, Raphael Semmes. Manet was there in Cherbourg and witnessed the duel along with crowds of people.
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