Vue d'optique depicting the burning English frigate Quebec and its opponent the French frigate Surveillante, during the battle of October 6, 1779 near the island of Ushant. The print is dedicated to the memory of the Quebec's captain, George Farmer, who died in the battle
Alternative Title:
Etat malheureux du Quebeck et Surveillante vais. de guer. franʻ
Description:
Headline title printed in reverse mirror image. and Collection des prospects.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Farmer, George, 1732-1779., Surveillante (Frigate), and Québec (Frigate)
Portrait; three-quarter length seated three-quarter to right; at a table wearing a coat with braiding and large cuffs and frilled cravat and powdered hair brushed back; right hand on his thigh; left hand holding quill poised over sheets of paper; looking up to right at a classical statuette of a female figure holding a mirror and large shield decorated with a shining sun; a volume labelled "Sydney on Gov."; a letter addressed "To Hu Cotes Esqr London," and a scroll labelled "Magna Charta" on the table; and a plaque with a bust of Hampden leaning against the table in lower right corner
Description:
Title from text below image., Engraved after a portrait by R.E. Pine., Date of publication from description in the online catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery, London., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG D19995., and "Cum Gratia et Privilegio Sae Caes Majestatis."
