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 Cooper Willyams (1750-1825, Naval Chaplain, British)

Publisher Cooper Willyams (1750-1825, Naval Chaplain, British)

Etcher Samuel Alken (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.

Collections

Beinecke Collection of the Lesser Antilles

Additional Details

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.