An East View of Fort Royal in the Island of Guadaloupe

Date1762

Artist/Maker Lieutenant Sir Archibald Campbell (1739 - 1791)

Artist/Maker Mazell

OriginEngland, London

MediumLine engraving and etching on laid paper

DimensionsOverall: 17 13/16 × 23 1/16in. (45.2 × 58.6cm) Other (Plate): 36.5 × 53.3cm (14 3/8 × 21in.)

Credit LineAnonymous gift

Object number1984-51

DescriptionLower margin reads: "An East View of Fort Royal in the Island of Guadaloupe./ Vue du Fort Royal, dans l'Isle de Guadaloupe, du Cote de l'Est/ Drawn on the SPOT by Lieu.t Arch. Campbell Engineer Engraved by Peter Mazell/ London Printed for John Bowles at N.o 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at N.o 53 Fleet Street; Tho.s Jeffreys the corner of S.t Martins Lane in the Strand, Carington Bowles at N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, and Henry Parker at N.o 8 in Cornhill."
Label TextThis print shows a scene of the island of Guadeloupe that was home to a highly contested military base between the English and the French. In this print, the British are enjoying their four year rule of the island from 1759 to 1763. This print is from a series of twenty-eight prints of American scenes published under the title Scenographia Americana in 1768. The images range widely in content and geographical location, depicting the military structures at Port Royal in Guadeloupe as well as the wilderness of Passaic Falls in New Jersey. Many of the prints commemorated sites where the English were victorious during the Seven Years War, and were the first, large, accurate, and elaborately engraved series of views of America.