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

York in 1839. He designed numerous ship, engine and propeller prototypes for the U.S. Navy, the most famous of which was the USS Monitor , an iron-clad ship he designed in 1862, which helped save the U.S. Navy from destruction by the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. Following Ericsson’s wish to be buried in Sweden, the U.S. Navy sent his remains aboard the USS Baltimore in 1890. This scene shows the f leet departing from New York harbor with the Swedish and American f lags set at half-mast on the USS Baltimore . Morand/Friese 75. [1,500/2,500]