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Weekly Photo - USS New Ironsides
🕑 Added 2024-03-11 08:00:04 +0000 UTCOne of three ships ordered as a an emergency response to the construction of CSS Virginia, the armoured frigate USS New Ironsides was the only one that ticked the boxes of both well protected and seaworthy in anything outside a mild breeze. Although still small and shallow draught due to the nature of her operational environment compared to the big European ironclads, she would be the largest American ironclad warship built for some time.
This picture is of an original by Oscar Parkes, he did about a dozen pencil and charcoal drawings of various American Civil War era ships and black and white scans can be found online, but since I own the originals you guys are the only ones who get to see them in their original colours. (Also available as posters via Etsy!)
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Squeued
Geez Drach, just an observation but Mr. Parkes has some serious drawing skills. I wouldnt be surprised if he has his drawing hand, various drawing utensils/tools insured by Lloyds of London. The drawings are just exceptional. Their clean lines and shading hold my gaze in wonder. If there is an online gallery I would love to see more of his expertise. Thanks for sharing the art and info for purchasing a copy.
Squeued
I believe "marginal" would suit the effort rather well. Rambo that is.
Grumman Cat
Funny that they made her official name "New Ironsides" but Old Ironsides was never actually named that. Kinda like calling the movie "Rambo" instead of "First blood part 2", so that when the third movie comes out, nobody's sure what to call it!
