Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Crepin, Louis Philippe, artist
Group Creator Name:
- Prot & Dissart Sculpserum, engraver
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[Shipwreck of the Astrolabe's yawl at Port des Francais, Lituya Bay, Alaska, on July 13, 1786]
Date:
[18--]
Materials:
print on paper: engraving, hand colored
Dimensions:
53.4 x 71.6 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0337--E
Subject:
- Alaska
- Events
- Northwest, Pacific
- Vessels
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Engravings, color
- Marines (Visual works)
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Content/Description:
Notes:
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.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
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.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf167nb3v s

[Shipwreck of the Astrolabe's yawl at Port des Francais, Lituya Bay, Alaska, on July…