2-752-648 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Brenton's Cove', 1872. The coast near Newport, Rhode Island, USA. 'Looking out from this cove, you might once have seen poor Burgoyne sailing for England after his sad defeat; Cook's famous ship Endeavor was condemned, dismantled, and left to decay upon these shores ; the Macedonian, prize of the frigate United States, was brought to anchor here; the British fleet, under Lord Howe, and the French fleet, under D'Estaing, both sailed by this rocky cove, one bringing misery and the other joy to the hearts of the old inhabitants of Rhode Island'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. I, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872]