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Title: Thirteen Chapters of American History
represented by the Edward Moran series of Thirteen
Historical Marine Paintings

Author: Theodore Sutro

Release Date: April 4, 2008 [EBook #24990]

Language: English

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THIRTEEN
HISTORICAL
MARINE
PAINTINGS

BY

EDWARD MORAN

REPRESENTING
THIRTEEN CHAPTERS
OF
AMERICAN HISTORY

[Decoration]

By THEODORE SUTRO

1905

[Illustration: Copyright, 1905, by Theodore Sutro.

EDWARD MORAN
From a painting by Thomas Sidney Moran]

THIRTEEN CHAPTERS
OF
AMERICAN HISTORY

REPRESENTED
BY THE
EDWARD MORAN
SERIES OF
THIRTEEN HISTORICAL
MARINE PAINTINGS

[Decoration]

_By_ THEODORE SUTRO

1905

NEW YORK:

THEODORE SUTRO, 280 BROADWAY

AND

THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHER'S AGENTS,
33-37 EAST 17TH STREET.

_$1.50 net._

Copyright, 1905, by Theodore Sutro

To

_My Dear Wife_

FLORENCE

THROUGH WHOSE STEADFAST FRIENDSHIP FOR
MR. AND MRS. EDWARD MORAN AND LOYAL DEVOTION
TO ME, I WAS LED TO CHAMPION, AND
ENCOURAGED TO PERSEVERE IN ESTABLISHING,
THE RIGHTS OF THE WIDOW TO THESE MASTERWORKS,
WITHOUT WHICH THE OCCASION FOR
PENNING THESE PAGES WOULD NOT HAVE ARISEN--THIS
LITTLE WORK IS LOVINGLY INSCRIBED,
ON THE
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR MARRIAGE,
October 1st, 1904.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE.

FRONTISPIECE--Portrait of Edward Moran, from a painting by
THOMAS SIDNEY MORAN

INTRODUCTORY 7

BIOGRAPHICAL 15

PORTRAIT OF MRS. EDWARD MORAN, from a painting by
THOMAS SIDNEY MORAN Facing page 20

DESCRIPTIVE AND EXPLAN