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Wreck of the Two Boats at Port des Français
1798

$1,500.00

La Pérouse strikes tragedy in Lituya Bay, Alaska

Artist: James Heath (1757-1834) after Ozanne
Title: Wreck of the Two Boats at Port des Français
Date: 1798
School: British, British XVIIIth-century
Medium: etching and engraving
Dimensions: 250 x 340mm (plate)
Watermark: 1803
Inscriptions/marks: lower left border <<Ozanne delt.>>; lower right border <<Heath sculp.>>; lower border centre <<Published as the Act directs, Nov.r. 1st. 1798, by G. G. & J. Robinson, Pater Noster Row, London.>>
Condition: good condition of a later printing on wove paper with an 1803 watermark.
Description: Plate 25 from Charts and Plates to La Pérouse’s Voyage, published as a separate atlas volume to accompany A voyage around the world, performed in the years, 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, by the Boussole and the Astrolabe, under the command of J.F.G. de la Pérouse…. London: G.G. & J. Robinson, 1799.