Item 22474 - Ink sketch of Tripoli, 1804

Item 22474 - Ink sketch of Tripoli, 1804
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Item 22474
Ink sketch of Tripoli, 1804
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Henry Wadsworth (1785-1804), for whom the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was named, sketched Tripoli, North Africa, in 1804 while serving in the U.S. Navy.

Wadsworth was killed when a bomb ship he and others manned exploded prematurely.

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