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[Battle of Kinburn, 1787]
[Battle of Kinburn, 1787] Vue d'Oczakow et de Kinburn, à l'embouchure du Dnieper dans la Mer noire [....] [parallel text in German]
Fr. Casanova ad Natur pinxit C: Schutz delin:
Chr: a Mechel excudit Basilae 1788.
Aquatint with fine hand-colouring, very scare & fine; sheet 365 x 480mm (14½ x 19"). Glued to backing sheet at edges; glue stains at bottom centre in margin.
The Battle of Kinburn, fought on 1 October 1787 during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-92. The fortress of Kinburn was situated opposite Ochakov (modern Ukraine) at the Dnieper river delta. Ottoman forces sought to secure a base from which to attack Ochakov, but they were defeated by the Russian forces of Alexander Suvorov. From 'Tableaux et plans des evénements les plus mémorables, de la guerre actuelle des autrichiens et des russes contre les turcs' by Chrétien de Méchel (1790).
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