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The Unlucky Loss of the French Warships Quebec and Surveillant – Etat Malheureux du Quebeck et Surveillant Vais de Guerre

After Richard Paton British
ca. 1779
Not on view

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Object Information
  • Title: The Unlucky Loss of the French Warships Quebec and Surveillant – Etat Malheureux du Quebeck et Surveillant Vais de Guerre
  • Engraver: Balthasar Friedrich Leizel (German, active 1751–1800)
  • Artist: After Richard Paton (British, London 1717–1791 London)
  • Publisher: Academie Imperiale, Augsburg (German, founded 1755)
  • Published in: Augsburg
  • Date: ca. 1779
  • Medium: Hand-colored etching and engraving
  • Dimensions: Plate: 11 7/8 × 16 1/4 in. (30.2 × 41.2 cm)
    Sheet: 12 3/16 × 16 1/2 in. (31 × 41.9 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.90.1338
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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