A view from the camp at the east end of the naked sand hills, on the south east shore of the Isle of Sable – Historic Print

A view from the camp at the east end of the naked sand hills, on the south east shore of the Isle of Sable, [London] : Pub as the Act Directs by J.F.W. DesBarres Esqr., 1781 June 1. — historic print — A view from the camp at the east end of the naked sand hills, on the south east shore of the Isle of Sable, [London] : Pub as the Act Directs by J.F.W. DesBarres Esqr., 1781 June 1.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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This rare historic print captures A view from the camp at the east end of the naked sand hills, on the south east shore of the Isle of Sable in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A view from the camp at the east end of the naked sand hills, on the south east shore of the Isle of Sable

Name: A view from the camp at the east end of the naked sand hills, on the south east shore of the Isle of Sable — historic print print
Brand: Snapshots of the Past
SKU: AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123147
Price: 77.00 USD
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Few places on the Atlantic coast look as bare as the dunes in this view, which shows a camp pitched among the naked sand hills at the east end of Sable Island, a low sandbar off Nova Scotia's southeast shore. Joseph F. W. DesBarres made it for *The Atlantic Neptune*, the large set of charts and coastal views he prepared for the Royal Navy and published in London between 1777 and 1781. The island was feared by sailors for its shipwrecks, and charts and views of its shifting shoreline had practical value for mariners. This print bears a publication date of June 1, 1781, when the American Revolution was still being fought and accurate knowledge of North Atlantic waters mattered to the navy.

Created / published	[London] : Pub as the Act Directs by J.F.W. DesBarres Esqr., 1781 June 1.
Medium	1 print : aquatint with etching.
Genre	Marine prints 1780-1790.Intaglio prints 1780-1790.
Notes	Title from item. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777-1781. This record contains unverified, old data from Cresswell, 1975. 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. 434.
Subjects	Camping--Nova Scotia--Sable Island--1780-1790. Hills--Nova Scotia--Sable Island--1780-1790. Sand--Nova Scotia--Sable Island--1780-1790. Sable Island (N.S.)--1780-1790. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Source	Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan	1,536 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
Reference	AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123147

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A view from the camp at the east end of the naked sand hills, on the south east shore of the Isle of Sable

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