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Habermann, Francois Xaver (1721-1796) Die Anlandung der Englischen Troupen zu Neu Yorck [New York][in French & German (with collateral folder of newspaper clippings)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05860.01 Author/Creator: Habermann, Francois Xaver (1721-1796) Place Written: Augsburg, Germany Type: Print Date: 1777 ca. Pagination: 1 engraving : hand col. ; 36.4 x 47.7 cm. Order a Copy

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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