Combat naval livre le 21 Juillet 1781 par mr. de La Pérouse capitaine de vaisseaux ... : ce combat fut livre, à la hauteur de Louisbourg, par deux frégates du roi, l'Astrée, de 26. canons, commandée par mr. de la Pérouse, capitaine de vaisseaux, et l'Hermione, de même force, par mr. le cte. de La Touche également capitaine, contre six batimens de guerre anglois ... [engraving]
1790
P&E L2022S1ff
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Title
Combat naval livre le 21 Juillet 1781 par mr. de La Pérouse capitaine de vaisseaux ... : ce combat fut livre, à la hauteur de Louisbourg, par deux frégates du roi, l'Astrée, de 26. canons, commandée par mr. de la Pérouse, capitaine de vaisseaux, et l'Hermione, de même force, par mr. le cte. de La Touche également capitaine, contre six batimens de guerre anglois ... [engraving]
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Se trouve à Paris Chez Mérigot le jeune 1790
Description
1 print ; image 47 x 73 cm. on sheet 57 x 77 cm.
Call Number
P&E L2022S1ff
Note
Signed: Rossel, pinxt, 1788; Dequevauviller, sculpt, 1790.
The engraving depicts two French frigates, Astrée and Hermione, at the height of battle against a convoy of six British warships off Cape Breton Island in July 1781; the French prevailed, capturing two British warships.
The commander of the Astrée was the comte de La Perouse (an original member of the Society and famous explorer who was sent on a voyage around the world by Louis XVI but disappeared somewhere off the coast of Australia in the late 1780s); comte de La Touche-Tréville (also an original member of the Society) commanded the Hermione, the ship that just the year before had carried Lafayette on his return to America from France with news of increased support from the King.
Rossel de Cercy collaborated with the engraver Dequevauviller on a planned series of eighteen engravings of French naval engagements during the American revolutionary war to be dedicated to the King, but ultimately only three engravings were completed.
See also BROAD L2018F188m and P&E L2017F65ff.
Digitized image available, see URL.
The engraving depicts two French frigates, Astrée and Hermione, at the height of battle against a convoy of six British warships off Cape Breton Island in July 1781; the French prevailed, capturing two British warships.
The commander of the Astrée was the comte de La Perouse (an original member of the Society and famous explorer who was sent on a voyage around the world by Louis XVI but disappeared somewhere off the coast of Australia in the late 1780s); comte de La Touche-Tréville (also an original member of the Society) commanded the Hermione, the ship that just the year before had carried Lafayette on his return to America from France with news of increased support from the King.
Rossel de Cercy collaborated with the engraver Dequevauviller on a planned series of eighteen engravings of French naval engagements during the American revolutionary war to be dedicated to the King, but ultimately only three engravings were completed.
See also BROAD L2018F188m and P&E L2017F65ff.
Digitized image available, see URL.
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