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  THIRTEEN
  HISTORICAL
  MARINE
  PAINTINGS

  BY

  EDWARD MORAN

  REPRESENTING
  THIRTEEN CHAPTERS
  OF
  AMERICAN HISTORY

  [Decoration]

  By THEODORE SUTRO

  1905

  [Illustration: Copyright, 1905, by Theodore Sutro.

  EDWARD MORAN
  From a painting by Thomas Sidney Moran]




  THIRTEEN CHAPTERS
  OF
  AMERICAN HISTORY

  REPRESENTED
  BY THE
  EDWARD MORAN
  SERIES OF
  THIRTEEN HISTORICAL
  MARINE PAINTINGS

  [Decoration]

  _By_ THEODORE SUTRO

  1905

  NEW YORK:

  THEODORE SUTRO, 280 BROADWAY

  AND

  THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO.
  PUBLISHER'S AGENTS,
  33-37 EAST 17TH STREET.

  _$1.50 net._

  Copyright, 1905, by Theodore Sutro




  To

  _My Dear Wife_

  FLORENCE

  THROUGH WHOSE STEADFAST FRIENDSHIP FOR
  MR. AND MRS. EDWARD MORAN AND LOYAL DEVOTION
  TO ME, I WAS LED TO CHAMPION, AND
  ENCOURAGED TO PERSEVERE IN ESTABLISHING,
  THE RIGHTS OF THE WIDOW TO THESE MASTERWORKS,
  WITHOUT WHICH THE OCCASION FOR
  PENNING THESE PAGES WOULD NOT HAVE ARISEN--THIS
  LITTLE WORK IS LOVINGLY INSCRIBED,
  ON THE
  TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR MARRIAGE,
  October 1st, 1904.




  TABLE OF CONTENTS.


                                                                  PAGE.

  FRONTISPIECE--Portrait of Edward Moran, from a painting by
        THOMAS SIDNEY MORAN

  INTRODUCTORY                                                        7

  BIOGRAPHICAL                                                       15

  PORTRAIT OF MRS. EDWARD MORAN, from a painting by
        THOMAS SIDNEY MORAN                            Facing page   20

  DESCRIPTIVE AND EXPLANATORY:

  I. THE OCEAN--THE HIGHWAY OF ALL NATIONS                           27

  II. LANDING OF LIEF ERICKSON IN THE NEW WORLD IN
      THE YEAR 1001                                                  33

  III. THE SANTA MARIA, NINA AND PINTA (Evening of October
       11th, 1492)                                                   39

  IV. THE DEBARKATION OF COLUMBUS (Morning of October
      12th, 1492)                                                    39

  V. MIDNIGHT MASS ON THE MISSISSIPPI, OVER THE BODY OF
     FERDINAND DE SOTO, 1542                                         47

  VI. HENRY HUDSON ENTERING NEW YORK BAY, September
      11th, 1609                                                     53

  VII. EMBARKATION OF THE PILGRIMS FROM SOUTHAMPTON,
       August 5th, 1620                                              59

  VIII. FIRST RECOGNITION OF THE AMERICAN FLAG BY A
        FOREIGN GOVERNMENT. In the Harbor of Quiberon,
        France, February 13th, 1778                                  67

  IX. BURNING OF THE FRIGATE PHILADELPHIA. In the Harbor
      of Tripoli, February 16th, 1804                                73

  X. THE BRIG ARMSTRONG ENGAGING THE BRITISH FLEET.
     In the Harbor of Fayal, September 26th, 1814                    79

  XI. IRON VERSUS WOOD--SINKING OF THE CUMBERLAND BY
      THE MERRIMAC. In Hampton Roads, March 8th, 1862                87

  XII. THE WHITE SQUADRON'S FAREWELL SALUTE TO THE
       BODY OF CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON, New York Bay,
       August 25th, 1890                                             95

  XIII. RETURN OF THE CONQUERORS. Typifying Our Victory
        in the late Spanish-American War, September 29th, 1899      105

  INDEX                                                             111




  INTRODUCTORY

  [Illustration: T. S. M.]




  INTRODUCTORY.


The Thirteen Paintings, to a history and description of which (and
incidentally to a brief memoir of their creator