Légende
A lithograph of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the engagement between the USS screen and the CSS Virginia / Merrimack on 8 and 9 March 1862 during the American Civil War. It was the world's first encounter between two steam-powered ironclads in naval history. In the foreground on the left is the flat-bottomed USS screen of the Northern States with its rotating gun turret, on the right is the casemated CSS Virginia of the Southern States. The battle ended in a draw, but heralded the end of wooden warships and the beginning of modern steel-hulled shipping. American history, authentic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th-century original, exact date of the depiction unknown, historical
Date
12 août 2026
Crédit
Photo12/ImageBROKER/Sunny Celeste
Notre référence
BRK26I09_104
Model release
Non
Property release
Non
Licence
Libre de droits
Format disponible
83.5Mo (27.8Mo) / 51.5cm x 40.6cm / 6086 x 4797 (300dpi)