A view of the entrance of the harbour of the Havana, taken from within the wrecks / drawn by Elias Durnford, engineer ; engraved by Peter Canot. – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique engraving of A view of the entrance of the harbour of the Havana, taken from within the wrecks / drawn by Elias Durnford, engineer ; engraved by Peter Canot. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A view of the entrance of the harbour of the Havana, taken from within the wrecks / drawn by Elias Durnford, engineer ; engraved by Peter Canot.
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Rather than looking at the city from across the water, this engraving places the viewer among the sunken wrecks at the harbour mouth and looks back toward the channel. Elias Durnford, a British engineer, drew the scene, and Peter Canot engraved it for the London publisher Thomas Jefferys in 1764. The Spanish had scuttled their own ships to block the entrance during the British siege of 1762, and the caption identifies the vessels and structures, making the print a record of the obstacles British forces faced when they took Havana.
| Created / published | London : Thos. Jefferys, 1764. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Marine prints 1760-1770.Engravings 1760-1770. |
| Notes | Includes caption identifying ships & structures. |
| Subjects | Harbors--Cuba--Havana--1760-1770. Warships--British--1760-1770. Boats--Cuba--Havana--1760-1770. United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Naval operations. Havana (Cuba)--1760-1770. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,278 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-182647 |
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