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Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

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Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

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Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes two lines of text in French that list some of the institutions destroyed by the fire.
(as characteristic of perspective view or peep show prints, the title is printed in reverse).
For other versions, see: PGA - Habermann Representation du feu terrible ....
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 268.
Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 62.
Exhibited in: "Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2008-2009.
DCRM(G) example 0G7.2 - Reversed, turned, and approximated letters

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01/01/1778
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