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Recueil d'estampes representant les différents événemens de la Guerre qui a procuré l'indépendance aux Etats Unis de l'Amérique

Ponce, Nicolas, 1746-1831, engraver, Godefroy, François, 1743?-1819, engraver, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1784 · Paris, Ponce et Godefroy [1784?] · 16 pictures

An 1784 Paris portfolio of engraved prints by Nicolas Ponce and François Godefroy, published by Ponce et Godefroy, recording events of the American War of Independence for a French audience. The plates are landscape-format battle and surrender scenes with dense French captions beneath each image, and a designer might take their crowded tableau compositions, smoke-filled skies, and dramatic fine-line engraving for historical or period-style battle artwork.

France · History · Illustrated works · Paris · Pictorial works · Revolution · United States

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