Commodore Oliver H. Perry./ HERO OF THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE / "We have met the enemy and they are ours" / ------------------ + --------------- / Property of Brown University
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Inscription Label on back strecher bar [with centered text on each line]: Commodore Oliver H. Perry./ HERO OF THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE / "We have met the enemy and they are ours" / ------------------ + --------------- / Property of Brown University
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by Henry S. Lynn, Jr., in memory of his nephew, George Gambrill Lynn, Jr., a member of the Society of the Cincinnati
Provenance Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (deaccessioned 1980); Ira Spanierman, Inc., New York; Shepard Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island; Christie's, Lot no. 689/ Sale no. 9054, New York (January 1999); The Law Firm of Tillinghast, Collins and Graham, Providence, RI; Private Collection; William Vareika Fine Arts, Newport, Rhode Island; by purchase, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama (10/17/2011)
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