Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Island of Martinico

Accession number: 
02124
Record number: 
02124-1
JCB call number: 
D762 G224a / 1-SIZE
Image title: 
Island of Martinico
Place image published: 
[Birmingham]
Image publisher: 
[John Baskerville, for G. Steidel, in London]
Image date: 
[1762]
Image function: 
fold-out plate; frontispiece
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
18.5 cm.
Image dimension width: 
29.1 cm.
Page dimension height: 
27.7 cm.
Page dimension width: 
39.8 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
Squadron of ships attacks the town of Saint Pierre on Martinique. Includes view of the town, ships and boats, dwellings, windmills, churches, fortifications, location of troops and batteries, topographical details, scene of naval warfare, and compass rose.
Source creator: 
Gardiner, Richard, 1723-1781
Source Title: 
An account of the expedition to the West Indies against Martinico, with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the Leeward Islands; subject to the French king, 1759
Source place of publication: 
Birmingham
Source publisher: 
Printed by John Baskerville, for G. Steidel, at the Crown and Bible, Maddox-Street, Hanover-Square, London
Source date: 
1762
notes: 
Founded in 1635 by the French and once a primary economic center of Martinique, Saint Pierre was destroyed by the volcano eruption of 1902. In 1759, it was attacked by English forces under General Peregrine Hopson and Commodore John Moore, but the English were driven off by the French militia .
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1870.
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: 
Anglo French War, 1755-1763