Sale 2516 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, September 19, 2019

125  THOMAS MORAN The White Squadron’s Farewell Salute to the Body of John Ericsson, New York Bay, August 23, 1890 . Etching on Japan paper, 1898-99. 580x843 mm; 23x33 1 / 4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right, and signed by Edward Moran in pencil, lower left. With the submarine remarqué lower left. A superb impression of this large, scarce etching. After the same-titled painting by Edward Moran now at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. John Ericsson (1803-1889) was a Swedish-born inventor and engineer who emigrated to New