TLF: "Corsair and Chébeque Fight", 1971 [101]; "Corsair and Chebec Fight", 1970-71 Cambridge [102, Nr. 166]
Whereabouts not known
Provenance: 1973 sold after the exhibition at Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, to Mrs. Sally Whitaker, "then of Boston Museum School in my class" [102, Nr. 166]
TLF: "Xebec and Corsair Fight (Tripoli 1750). The three-masted vessel, the Xebec or, as the French spell it, Chébec, is a tracing of the “Mistique” built in 1750 and published by the Musée de Marine of Paris. The dark vessel is the corsair of Barbary, also a Xebec but of quite different sail combination. It is borrowed from the famous Marseilles painter of marines, Antoine Roux père, who was a contemporary of such types. Every American schoolboy knows or knew once, what a role the Barbary coast pirates played in the infancy of American overseas trade. The “Mistique” was part of the French fleet in the Western Mediterranean." [published in "The Christian Science Monitor", Cambridge, MA, February 5, 1973]
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