Travailleurs couronnant la brêche du bastion 7 (Laborers Surmounting the Breach in Bastion 7), from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition et siege de Rome (Memories of Italy: the Expedition to and Siege of Rome)

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Photo by John Bentham.
Travailleurs couronnant la brêche du bastion 7 (Laborers Surmounting the Breach in Bastion 7), from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition et siege de Rome (Memories of Italy: the Expedition to and Siege of Rome)
Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (French, 1804 - 1860)
Date1850-60
MediumLithograph
DimensionsComposition: 8 1/2 × 14 in. (21.6 × 35.6 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 17 1/8 in. (31.4 × 43.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Carnegie Corporation
Object number1928.16
Not on view
DescriptionSouvenirs d'Italie: Expedition et siege de Rome (Memories of Italy: the expedition to and siege of Rome) was a portfolio of 36 numbered plates.
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Provenance 1928: Hamilton College (James Library), by gift of Carnegie Corporation.
Inscribed "30 / TRAVAILLEURS COURONNANT LA BRÊCHE DU BASTION 7. / Le chef de Bataillon DE CAPPE à la tête de deux Compagnies d'élite du 53ème. d'une Brigade de sapeurs du génie et d'une colonne de travailleurs franchit la brêche et s'empare du Bastion 7. / (Siège de Rome, 21 Juin, 1849.) / Au signal donné à 11 h. hu soir par le Colonel NIEL (aujourd'hui Maréchal de France) eurent lieu les assauts du Bastion 6, de la Courtine 6-7 et du Bastion 7, l'ennemi à cet instant alluma des feux de Bengale sur sa deuxième ligne de défense. / Na. Les colonnes de Travailleurs étaient composées de Soldats d'élite des 16ème. et 25ème. Léger." at lower center in typeset in black ink; "Paris, Gihaut, Editeur, Boulevard des Italiens, 9." at lower left in typeset in black ink; "Paris, Imp. par Augusté Bry, 114, r. du Bac" at lower right in typeset in black ink; "14" on verso at center right in pencil.
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