To Major Hare. of the 12th Light Dragoons. This view of the Bay & Town of St. Pierre is Inscribed by his Sincere and Obliged Friend, Cooper Willyams

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To Major Hare. of the 12th Light Dragoons. This view of the Bay & Town of St. Pierre is Inscribed by his Sincere and Obliged Friend, Cooper Willyams
To Major Hare. of the 12th Light Dragoons. This view of the Bay & Town of St. Pierre is Inscribed by his Sincere and Obliged Friend, Cooper Willyams
Artist/Maker (1750-1825, Naval Chaplain, British)
Publisher (1750-1825, Naval Chaplain, British)
Etcher (British, 1756 - 1815)
Datepublished August 1, 1796
MediumAquatint
DimensionsComposition: 10 1/16 × 16 3/4 in. (25.6 × 42.5 cm) Plate: 12 in. × 18 13/16 in. (30.5 × 47.8 cm) Frame: 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm) Sheet: 17 1/8 × 22 13/16 in. (43.5 × 57.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection of Hamilton College
Object number1981.1.1
Not on view
DescriptionView of a town on a bay. Includes mountain, opera house, Ursuline convent, flag, redoubt or fort, parade, guard house, former Jesuit college, dwellings, boats, ship, and blacks [slaves?] on the shoreline and rowing boats.
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Published References Hough, Samuel J. and Penelope R.O. Hough, THE BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION AT HAMILTON COLLEGE: A CATOLOGUE OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTS, MAPS, AND DRAWINGS (Trustees of Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1994), 332, catalogue no.P17a.
Signature Signed in typeset at lower left: Drawn by the Revd. C. Willyams.; in typeset at lower right: London Pubd. Augst. 1, 1796 by the Revd. C. Willyams.; in typeset at lower right: S. Alken fecit.
Inscribed Inscribed in typeset at lower left: Drawn by the Revd. C. Willyams.; in typeset at lower center: To Major Hare. of the 12th Light Dragoons. This view of the Bay & Town of St. Pierre, is inscribed by / his sincere & obliged Friend. Cooper Willyams.; in typeset at lower center: London. Pubd. Augst. 1. 1796. by the Revd. C. Willyams.; in typeset at lower right: S. Alken fecit.


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