Title:
[Shipwreck of the Astrolabe's yawl at Port des Francais, Lituya Bay, Alaska, on July 13, 1786]
Creator/Contributor:
Crepin, Louis Philippe, artist (artist)
Prot & Dissart Sculpserum, engraver (engraver)
Date:
[18--]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0337--E
Format:
print on paper: engraving, hand colored
53.4 x 71.6 cm.
Content/Description:
Group of French crew members fight storm in small boats as sailing ship at right comes to rescue; rocky mountains in distance.
Related to La Perouse expedition.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): Naufrage de M.M. de Laborde sur les canots de la Peyrouse au Port des François dans la Californie: Dédié
a Monsieur Alexandre de Laborde leur frère [descriptive paragraph follows below]. Printed (LL, above title): Crepin pinxit;
(LR): (LR, above title): Prot & Dissart Sculpserum; (LL, below title): Déposé à la Bibliotheque Impériale; (LR, below title):
Voyage de la Peyrouse, Tome 2. Inscriptions in French.
Subjects:
Alaska;
Events;
Northwest, Pacific;
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Engravings, color;
Marines (Visual works)