Manuscripts

Penobscot Bay, Maine: An Ideal Plan of the River Penobscot

Description: Pen and ink manuscript map.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1779 August 6
Call number: DE 83
Creator: Destouches, Charles-René-Dominique Sochet (1727-1794)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from the American Art Association, 1926. George Washington to Charles Rene Chevalier Destouches?, 1781 February 22 (mssDE 1); George Washington to Charles Rene Chevalier Destouches, 1780 December 23 (mssDE 73), were acquired with the Charles-Reň-Dominique Sochet Destouches papers and subsequently transferred to the George Washington collection (mssGW) by Huntington Library staff.
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Associated people: La Luzerne, Anne-César, (1741-1791.); La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, (1741-1788.); Sartine, Antoine de, (1729-1801.); Ternay, Charles Louis d'Arsac, (1722-1780.); Washington, George, (1732-1799.)
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