View of Ticonderoga from Lake Champlain
1794-1796
Medium
etching with hand coloring on laid paper mounted to brown wove paper
Dimensions
image: 4.6 × 7.14 cm (1 13/16 × 2 13/16 in.) plate: 3.33 × 7.46 cm (1 5/16 × 2 15/16 in.) sheet: 7.62 × 9.53 cm (3 × 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)
Accession Number
2015.19.1584.57.8
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1770–1852
**Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin** Born on March 12, 1770, in Dijon, France, to marquis Bénigne-Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin, a former conseiller au Parlement de Bourgogne, and Victoire-Marie de Motmans, a creole from Port-au-Prince, Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin received a military education at the École Militaire in Paris, graduating in 1785. He served as a cad...