History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations (1894)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885 · Boston, Mass. ; New York, N.Y. : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 55
the rudder. This pictured poemwas accompanied with four symbolical statues, — Irudence, Temper-ance, Power, and Justice, — above which floated angels carrying thesymbols of the theological virtues. On one side of the poop mightbe seen I\Iars the avenger, ]Mercury the eloquent, and Ulysses stop-ping… … French Man-of-war of the bixteentli Century.From the Collection of Drawings in the National Library, Paris. OF ANCIENT AND MODERN NATIONS. 27 of the young admiral, or a delicate eiilogium on Charles V., his father,or on Philip II., his brother. All these emblems were chefs-cVceuvreof drawing and…
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