LA DESTRUCTION DE LA STATUE ROYALE A NOUVELLE YORCK

A Parisian printmaker's imagining of the crowd pulling down the equestrian statue of George III on Bowling Green on July 9, 1776, after the Declaration was read to Washington's troops. The artist had never seen New York and gave it the look of a European capital; the enthusiasm is authentic. The collection holds three such views of the Revolution in New York.

From Catalog IV

A Parisian printmaker's imagining of the crowd pulling down the equestrian statue of George III on Bowling Green on July 9, 1776, after the Declaration was read to Washington's troops. The artist had never seen New York and gave it the look of a European capital; the enthusiasm is authentic. The collection holds three such views of the Revolution in New York.