Count Jean-Francois de la Perouse
Alaska - Port des Francais (Lituya Bay), 1798
An original antique copper-engraving
10 x 13 ½ in
26 x 34 cm
26 x 34 cm
USAp702
Port des Francais (Lituya Bay): View of the two expedition rowboats capsized by a tidal current in the narrow inlet to the bay. Twenty-one men lost their lives in honour...
Port
des Francais (Lituya Bay): View of the two expedition rowboats capsized by a tidal
current in the narrow inlet to the bay. Twenty-one men lost their lives in honour
of whom the bay’s only island, Cenotaph Island, was named.
des Francais (Lituya Bay): View of the two expedition rowboats capsized by a tidal
current in the narrow inlet to the bay. Twenty-one men lost their lives in honour
of whom the bay’s only island, Cenotaph Island, was named.
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