Representation du Feu Terrible a Nouvelle Yorck
Date1776
Geography
Printed -
France
Medium/TechniqueInk and watercolor on paper; etching
DimensionsOverall (H x W): 14 in. x 19 3/4 in. (35.56 cm x 50.17 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, 1997
Object numberPrint-5146/RP-785
DescriptionThis print is a vue d'optique depicting the great fire in New York on 19 September 1776, during the occupation of the city by British forces during the American Revolutionary War.MarkingsPrinted in ink on the upper edge in reverse: "Representation du Feu Terrible a Nouvelle Yorck."
Printed in ink below the image: "Representation du Feu Terrible a Nouvelle Yorck, que les Americains ont allume pendant la nuit du 19 Septembre 1776 par lequel ont ete brules tous les Batimens du cote de Vest / a droit de Borse, dans la rue de Brock jusqu'au Lutherienne, et l'ecole des pauvres. / A Paris chez J. Chereau rue St. Jacques au dessus de la Fontaine St. Severin aux 2 Colonnes. No. 267."
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