Incendie du Vaisseau Le Mars dans le Port de L'ile de France
One of a pair of slightly crude but carefully detailed original watercolors by de Gueydon; this one showing the accidental conflagration of the 'Mars' in 1773 near fort in harbor of Port-Louis, Ile de France (Mauritius) and escaping personnel, officers, sailors and marines, small figures of colonial infantry near fort. One of a pair of slightly crude but carefully detailed original watercolors by de Gueydon; this one showing the accidental conflagration of the 'Mars' in 1773 near fort in harbor of Port-Louis, Ile de France (Mauritius) and escaping personnel, officers, sailors and marines, small figures of colonial infantry near fort. Large oblong folio, on cardboard mount; black watercolor borders. Bethel, Conn., Alfred Paine, 1969.
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