Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001557Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise
by Thomas Birch
Inscriptions
On back: "Capture of the Corsair Tripoli by the / Enterprise under Sterrett and Porter / Off Malta August 1803 / T. Birch, Pinxit."
Provenance
Major William Boerum Wetmore, New York; Hiram Burlingham, New York; sold at Anderson Galleries, New York, January 11, 1934; French and Company, New York; private collection, Connecticut, to Richard York Gallery, New York, by 1991; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.
Exhibition history
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, A Gallery of National Portraiture and Historic Scenes, June 13–Oct. 10, 1926, cat. 26.
Publications
Doris Jean Creer, Thomas Birch: A Study of the Condition of Painting and the Artist's Position in Federal America (MA thesis, University of Delaware, 1958), 57. "The AD Collection," Architectural Digest (December, 1990) 216 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Birch / American, born England, 1779–1851
- Date
- 1806–12
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45.1 × 65.1 cm (17 3/4 × 25 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- Philadelphia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Accession no.
- 1991.30
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