Featured Navy Yard by W. H. M. - ideas?

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I don't think it's Meyers. Pictures by him are online and are very naive. This was done by a trained professional. It's a wood engraving. There must have been something for the engraver to work from, but it need not have been a full color painting. It has the look of an illustration from a book or magazine, maybe a magazine supplement. Is there printing on the back?

Those giclee prints are about 16" square, so that's to OP's advantage. At least this print isn't one of those reproductions.

Is that the Monitor tucked in behind?

 

Well done!

Everything's from Picturesque something-or-other.

 

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/philadelphia-prints-picturesque-1758571157

http://captainsclerk.info/archives/...restoration and apprentice training ship.html

 

I haven't done any searching but does that thing to the left of the ship look like a submarine?

 

Alrighty then! Some back & forth!

I saw the GP, but biased by Mo's question, I assumed that was the printer & did not search in that direction.

Google perversity. When I was looking earlier today for anything on Meyers, particularly any art, was getting nada on the art front. Encouraged by MOS, went looking again & agree, they are more primitive in style. FDR owned a set of 28 published in 1939 as Naval Sketches of the War in California. Published by Random House, it was printed by the Gabhorn Press. If Anund had not found the right path, I'd still be wandering around. Good show!

 

I see only 4 smaller boats, each full of men, & a barrel/buoy floating in the water. A couple of the small boats that are farther back do gestalt rather like subs.

 

I get that and thought similar actually.

 

On the shore back there is some type of tank or some such that looks much like a Monitor turret.

 

This is the thing that caught my eye and yes, resembles the Monitor to me too though could be something else. The Monitor was lost before the book came out and I don't know that is was ever in Philadelphia though some other ironclad could have been.




USS Monitor engaging CSS Virginia, 9 March 1862

 

There were more than one “monitor type” ship out there, in the link I posted above it reads “The turret of a monitor can be seen aft of her to the left.”
Here’s a wiki page that mentions the duplicating of the “monitor type”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monitor

 

Yes a shame she was. Terrible weather option that day.
Last I recall her prop was recovered, perhaps her turret and guns as well, and research was going on to see if she could be lifted because she was a truly a wreck when found.

 

AH!
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Many probably don't know but there was one built by Steven's Institute (my bro's Alma Mater...obviously much later...) in Hoboken, NJ. But she was never completed and then scrapped.
There were were monitors of all shapes and sizes as well.