COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
32910
Record number:
32910
JCB call number:
En768 S289 / 20
Image title:
A View of the Entrance of the Harbour of the Havana, taken from within the Wrecks. Vue de L'entrée du Port de la Havane prise en dedans des Bâtiments echoues. Vista de La entrada del Puerto de la Havana desde los Naufragios
Creator 1:
Elias Durnford
Creator 1 dates:
1739-1794
Creator 1 role:
Drawn by
Creator 2:
Peter Canot
Creator 2 dates:
1710-1777
Creator 2 role:
Engraved by
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
Printed for John Bowles ..., Robert Sayer ..., Thos. Jefferys ..., Carington Bowles ..., and Henry Parker ...
Image date:
[1768]
Image function:
print
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
32.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
52 cm.
Page dimension height:
38.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
55.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English, French, Spanish
Description:
View of the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba. Built environment includes fortifications, ships (one with a British flag), sailboat, boats, ships sunk in the harbor. A British man-of-war is being towed out past the wrecks by men in rowboats. Items in the image are numbered for identification in a key below.
Source Title:
Scenographia Americana: or, A collection of views in North America and the West Indies ... from drawings taken on the spot ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed by John Bowles ...
Source date:
1768
notes:
Elias Durnford, an engineer, was appointed surveyor-general of British West Florida in 1764. The British captured Havana in 1762 at the end of the Seven Years War only to trade it back to Spain in exchange for Florida eleven months later. The Spanish scuttled three warships in the harbor to prevent the British warships from entering. In 1768, John Bowles published Scenographia Americana, a collection of previously issued prints. The views in these prints were made from drawings that were drawn on the spot, often by military artists. This print is held separately.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
http://www.regiment… (Mar. 2003); Stokes, I.N.P. Iconography, I, p. 281 et seq.; Stokes, I.N.P. American Historical Prints, B-92
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1961.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Havana (Cuba)--History--Siege, 1762
A View of the Entrance of the Harbour of the Havana, taken from within the Wrecks. Vue de ...
