A chromolithograph depicting the Bombardment of Vera Cruz from the perspective of a naval battery (on land). American naval officers (dressed in a variety of blue uniforms that denote their ranks) are shown in the foreground behind a fortification barrier, with an American flag waving to the right. They are firing cannon rounds at the city of Vera Cruz in the distance. Smoke from the blasts fills the scene in the center of the print while puffs of smoke also rise from the city. [See Ron Tyler, introduction to The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, Kendall, Nebel, Taylor and Tyler (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1994), vi-xxviii; Rick Stewart, "Artists and Printmakers of the Mexican War" in Eyewitness to War?: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848, Sandweiss, Stewart, and Huseman, (Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1989), 36-39 and 43; Ben Huseman, "Bombardment of Vera-Cruz: No. 115; Plate 13" in Eyewitness to War, 87 and 275. This print accompanies the book "The War between the United States and Mexico Illustrated" by Carl Nebel and George Wilkins (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1851).]
