Treaty Signing, Barbary Wars
Boston: George Barrie, 1894. Color photogravure. Image measures 12" x 9 1/2" Lovely color print after the painting "Commandant and Warrant Officers, 1805" by Hugh Wittler Ditzler. It depicts the Dey of Algeria signing a treaty with the United States during the Barbary Wars, which entailed a series of treaties to protect and secure American merchant ships from pirates on the northern African coast of the Mediterranean. More