TIMBER RAFT ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN / Naval Engagement on Lake Champlain, 1776

engraving

Engraving, large center image sourrounded by decorative scrolls showing large pole raft with 4 sails, men on deck and a small building with smoking chimney; includes 3 vignettes, one above, to lower right and lower left; engraved beneath center "TIMBER RAFT ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN." and under vignette lower left "NAVAL ENGAGEMENT ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN./ 1776." and under vignette lower right "NAVAL ENGAGEMENT ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN./ 1776." Vignette at top of 3 sailing vessels. Identical Image found in Hinton's, "History & Topography of the United States.", dated 1850, artists named there as Thomas Cole and J. & F. Tallis.