Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck. [mirror image at the top] [engraving]

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck. [mirror image at the top] [engraving]

Paris Chez Basset ... ca. 1776

1 hand-colored print ; 28 x 40 cm. on sheet 31 x 41 cm. ; matted 40 x 53 cm.

P&E L1999F166

Shows the burning of New York as the British moved in behind the retreating Americans on September 19, 1776. Description mentions specific buildings such as King's College (Columbia University), the Bourse (Exchange), the Lutheran Chapel, the poor house, and 1600 other houses, but the buildings depicted are imaginary. A two line description of the scene appears in French below the etching. The title appears in mirror image at the top. Cresswell attributes this reverse version to Andre Basset l'aime. This version is the one pictured in Cresswell for #268.
Cresswell indicates that the original, larger version of this picture, was engraved by Francois Xav. Habermann in 177?, and the two-line description that appears below the picture was in both German and French. [See P&E L2001F270f]
Digitized image available, see URL.

Cresswell, Donald H. The American Revolution in drawings and prints, 268 (last variant)

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