Le Port St. George dans l'Isle de la Grenade,Vu de côte de l'Est. Tiré d'un Recuil de différens Portes des Antilles dessinés en 1780...
N. Ozanne del. Johanna F.a Ozanne sculp.
A Paris chez le Gouas Graveur, rue St Hyacinte, la I.ere porte cochere à gauche par la Place St Michel. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 210 x 345mm (8¼ x 13½"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed within the plate on the left.
A distant view, with a European looking down on the port with a telescope. The view was drawn by Nicolas-Marie Ozanne during the American Revolution: the French took the island in 1779, holding it until the treaty of Versailles in 1783. The engraver, Johanna, was one of his sisters: their father died when Nicolas was only sixteen, so he taught his sisters engraving so they could earn a livelihood.
[Ref: 51254] £260.00
A Paris chez le Gouas Graveur, rue St Hyacinte, la I.ere porte cochere à gauche par la Place St Michel. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 210 x 345mm (8¼ x 13½"), large margins on 3 sides. Trimmed within the plate on the left.
A distant view, with a European looking down on the port with a telescope. The view was drawn by Nicolas-Marie Ozanne during the American Revolution: the French took the island in 1779, holding it until the treaty of Versailles in 1783. The engraver, Johanna, was one of his sisters: their father died when Nicolas was only sixteen, so he taught his sisters engraving so they could earn a livelihood.
[Ref: 51254] £260.00