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Title: The desperate Fight of Captain Pearson of the Serapis and Paul Jones, Commander of the Bon Homme Richard, on the 23rd day of September, 1779
Artist:
James Fittler (British, London 1758–1835 Middlesex)
Artist:
Daniel Lerpinière (British, London ca. 1740–1785 London)
Artist:
After Richard Paton (British, London 1717–1791 London)
Publisher:
John Boydell (British, Dorrington, Shropshire 1720–1804 London)
Subject:
John Paul Jones (American, Kirkcudbright, Scotland 1747–1792 Paris)
Subject:
Captain Richard Pearson (British, 1731–1806)
Published in: London
Date: 1781
Medium: Engraving and etching
Dimensions:
image: 29 1/2 x 34 7/8 in. (74.9 x 88.6 cm)
sheet, cut to plateline: 31 5/8 x 36 in. (80.3 x 91.4 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
Object Number: 24.90.1516
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