Dedié a Monseigneur Le Duc de Bourgogne. Par son trés humble et trés obeissant Serviteur Ozanne, Dessinateur de la Marine a Brest et de l’Academis de Marins. Lorsque ce Vaisseau partit il parut un Oiseau de proye pour suivant une Colombe qui trouva son azile dans les Lauriers du Duc de Bourgogne.
Se vend a Paris chez la V.e de F. Chereau rue St Jacques aux deux Piliers d’Or. Avec Privilege du Roi. [n.d. c.1752.]
Engraving, rare. Plate 369 x 501mm (14½ x 19¾"). Trimmed, some damage.
The launching of the French ship Duc de Bourgogne (1752), the 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, from the port of Rochfort. Under Charles de Ternay, she was the flagship of the expeditionary corps that left on 2 May 1780 for the American War of Independence, and carried the Count of Rochambeau. She took part in the Battle of the Saintes and collided with Bourgogne (1767).
[Ref: 28900] £320.00
Engraving, rare. Plate 369 x 501mm (14½ x 19¾"). Trimmed, some damage.
The launching of the French ship Duc de Bourgogne (1752), the 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, from the port of Rochfort. Under Charles de Ternay, she was the flagship of the expeditionary corps that left on 2 May 1780 for the American War of Independence, and carried the Count of Rochambeau. She took part in the Battle of the Saintes and collided with Bourgogne (1767).
[Ref: 28900] £320.00