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Dunkerque : entrée du port [print] = Dunkerque : entrance of the port / Bonnington [sic] pinxt ; Thales Fielding sculpt.

Accession number
PML 140269.78
Creator
Sutherland, Thomas, ca. 1785-ca. 1825, engraver.
Published
Paris : Publié ... par J.F. d'Ostervald ; London : Published by Priestly [i.e. Priestley] & Weale, no. 5, High Street, Bloomsbury, [182-]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
After one of a series of views commissioned from Bonington by J.F. d'Ostervald, either for his Excursions sur les cotes et dans les ports de France, 1823-1825, or Ports et Côtes de France, de Dunkerque au Havre, 1833; an original watercolor by Bonington of this subject, with the title "The harbour at Dunkerque," was sold at auction by Christie's on June 7, 2001 (Sale 6457).
Parallel subtitles in French and English.
Print is mounted on folio 78 of a bound volume of prints by and after R.P. Bonington (see Bonington album PML 142069).
Description
1 print : aquatint ; image: 146 x 206 mm; sheet: 210 x 263 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
View of the harbor at Dunkerque.
Classification
Department