L'escadre française mouillée à Boston remâtant les vaisseaux – Vintage Wall Art
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This view shows the French squadron anchored in Boston harbor while its crews worked to refit the ships, with masts and rigging being repaired. The title is in French, and the record describes it as a photographic reproduction made in the 1940s of an 18th-century wash drawing from the Ozanne collection, a group of naval views associated with French marine draftsmen. The French fleet under Comte d'Estaing sought refuge in Boston in 1778 after storm damage and the failed Newport operation, so the scene captures a brief pause in the Franco-American alliance's naval campaigns. Its value lies in showing the working details of a port repair, which written accounts rarely record.
| Created / published | [194-] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Seascape drawings 1780-1790 Reproductions 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Title from item. Original wash drawings Available in the Ozanne map collection in the Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress. 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. 288. |
| Subjects | Naval warfare--French--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations--French. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 903 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109254 |
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