Basset: Antique View of Cayenne, French Guiana, 1760
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Description
A fascinating and beautifully designed "vue d'optique," or magic lantern print, showing a group of elegant French men and women disembarking in the New World to found the colony of Cayenne, or "Equinoxial France." Along the bottom of the image is a number key indicating the location of a Spanish fort, the caves of "savages," fishermen's huts and other local landmarks.
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Condition
original color; overall age toning, some tears and fraying along margins repaired?
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Basset: Antique View of Cayenne, French Guiana, 1760
Estimate $80 - $90
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