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- GLC#
- GLC05860.01
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1777 ca.
- Author/Creator
- Habermann, Francois X., 1721-1796
- Title
- Die Anlandung der Englischen Troupen zu Neu Yorck [New York][in French & German (with collateral folder of newspaper clippings)]
- Place Written
- Augsburg, Germany
- Pagination
- 1 engraving : hand col. Height: 36.4 cm, Width: 47.7 cm
- Language
- French, German
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Shows debarking British troops in a highly imaginative setting. Hand-colored engraving, in watercolor, by Francois Xaver Habermann. Title in French and German. Full title: "[German] Die Anlandung der Englischen Troupen zu Neu Yorck." and "[French] Debarquement des Troupes engloises [sic] a nouvelle Yorck". The French title at top center has been printed backwards, in the manner of a "Vue d'Optique." From the "Collection des Prospects" (LC-USZ62-45372). Part of a series of Vues d'Optique printed at Augsburg; other prints in the series include New Yorkers pulling down George III's statue (GLC06952) and fire in New York (GLC07754). Fowble, Two Centuries, 172.
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