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Artist/Maker
Cooper Willyams
British, 1750 – 1825
Publisher
Cooper Willyams
British, 1750 – 1825
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.
Published ReferencesHough, 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.
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.
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