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- Museum number
- 1868,0328.844
- Title
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Object: Prise de l'île de Grenade
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Series: Recueil d'estampes représentant les différents évènements de la guerre qui a procuré l'independance aux Etats-Unis de l'Amérique
- Description
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Plate 7: the French troops capturing an English fort in Grenada (5 July 1779), with two officers standing at centre, at right a man adding an epaulette to the jacket of a valiant soldier, and another man taking down the English flag, on the left a cannon, and soldiers flying the French flag; finished state, without plate number. 1783
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1783
- Dimensions
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Height: 192 millimetres
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Width: 218 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1932,0213.264 for comment on the series.
This particular plate was advertised in 'Journal de Paris', 23 January 1783; 'Gazette de France', 24 January 1783; and 'Affiches annonces et avis divers', 9 April 1783.
See another state of the same plate, with plate number: 1932,0213.270.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: American War of Independence 1775-1783
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0328.844
