(AMERICAN REVOLUTION PRINTS) [Habermann Francois X; engrave

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINTS.) [Habermann, Francois X.; engraver.] Representation du Feu Terrible a Nouvelle Yorck. Hand-colored etching, 13 x 19 inches; considerable wear including several closed tears with tape repairs on verso (two extending into image), moderate foxing and soiling, a bit of dampstaining in lower right margin, 2 pinholes in image. Paris: J. Chereau, circa 1778

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A fictitious vue d'optique depiction of the massive fire in British-held Manhattan on the night of 20 September 1776. British troops are beating suspected arsonists; several slaves (clad only in loincloths) carry pillaged trunks out of the burning buildings. The colorist has clad the British soldiers in blue, yellow, and red. See Cresswell 268 for another printing.