COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02124
Record number:
02124-3
JCB call number:
D762 G224a / 1-SIZE
Image title:
View of the Burning of the Town of Basse-Terre the Metropolis of the Island of Guadelupe Jany. 23, 1759.
Place image published:
[Birmingham]
Image publisher:
[John Baskerville, for G. Steidel, in London]
Image date:
[1762]
Image function:
fold-out plate; following p. 91
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
18 cm.
Image dimension width:
17 cm.
Page dimension height:
27.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
21.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Squadron of ships attacks the town of Basse-Terre on Guadaloupe. 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:
English forces under General Peregrine Hopson and Commodore John Moore captured Basse-Terre in 1759. Guadaloupe was given back to the French by the Treaty of Paris in 1762.
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
View of the Burning of the Town of Basse-Terre the Metropolis of the Island of Guadelupe J...
