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[Shipwreck of the Astrolabe's yawl at Port des Francais, Lituya Bay, Alaska, on July 13, 1786]

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Title: [Shipwreck of the Astrolabe's yawl at Port des Francais, Lituya Bay, Alaska, on July 13, 1786]
Creator: Crepin, Louis Philippe, artist Prot & Dissart Sculpserum, engraver
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
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.
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.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving, hand colored 53.4 x 71.6 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf167nb3vs
BANC PIC 1963.002:0337--E
Subject: Alaska
Events
Northwest, Pacific
Vessels
Voyages to the Pacific

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