Edward Percy Moran was a painter and etcher who studied under his father, Edward Moran, and also at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with S. J. Ferris and the National Academy of Design. His father was a marine artist and his uncle was Thomas Moran, a nationally famous western landscape painter. He trained in London and Paris and exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Brooklyn Art Association from 1861 to 1899.

He was a specialist in Colonial and historical subjects, genre and landscapes. Many of his works were reproduced in photogravures, mezzotint and colored etchings, and published in books and magazines.

He was a member of the American Watercolor Society. He received a prize in 1886 for his work exhibited at the NAD. He received a gold award at the American Artists Association, NYC in 1888.

On September 14, 1814, while detained aboard a British ship during the bombardment of Ft. McHenry, Francis Scott Key witnessed at dawn the failure of the British attempt to take Baltimore. Based on this experience, he wrote a poem that poses the question "Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave?" Almost immediately Key's poem was published and wedded to the tune of the "Anacreontic Song." The tune was written by John Stafford Smith in the mid-1760's.. By all accounts tone deaf, Key had already composed one other poem using the meter of the "Anacreontic Song" when he wrote "The Star Spangled Banner."

Medium : 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color

Created/Published : 1913

Creator : (Edward ) Percy Moran, artist, 1862-1935

Housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress

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Product #: cph3g06200