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TITLE:  Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

CALL NUMBER:  PGA - Basset--Representation du feu ... (B size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-19163 (digital file from original item)
LC-USZC4-1262 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-42 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes two lines of text in French that list some of the institutions destroyed by the fire.

MEDIUM:  1 print : etching, hand-colored.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  Paris : Chez Basset, Rue S. Jacques au coin de la rue des Mathurins, [1778?]

NOTES:

Title from item (as characteristic of perspective view or peep show prints, the title is printed in reverse).

For other versions, see: PGA - Habermann--Representation du feu terrible ....

Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 268.

Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 62.

Exhibited in: "Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2008-2009.

DCRM(G) example 0G7.2 - Reversed, turned, and approximated letters

SUBJECTS:

Fires--New York (State)--New York--1770-1780.
War destruction & pillage--New York (State)--New York--1770-1780.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

FORMAT:

Vues d'optique 1770-1780.
Etchings Hand-colored 1770-1780.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original item) ppmsca 19163 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19163
(digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3b52768 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b52768
(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a04042 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a04042

CONTROL #:  2004670215


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