A View of the Attack made on the Fort of Geriah by Admiral Watson, 13 February 1756 by Pierre-Charles Canot, British Museum, between 1756 and 1777. The Fort of Geriah in India was later called Vijaydurg Fort.
Pierre-Charles Canot (c.1710–77) was a French engraver who spent most of his career in England.
Life
Canot was born in France in about 1710. In 1740 he moved to England, where he lived there the rest of his life. He was elected an Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy in 1770, and died at Kentish Town, then just outside London, in 1777.[1] He engraved a large number of landscapes, sea-pieces, and other subjects after artists including Jan van Goyen, Lorrain and Jean Pillement. Joseph Strutt believed that his best prints were some large plates of maritime subjects after the works of Richard Paton.[2]
A true representation of Tower Hill as it appeared from a raised point of view from the north side on 18 August 1746, when the Earl of Kilmarnock and the Lord Balmerino were beheaded. [G Budd [ P C Canot ]
References
^ a bBryan 1886
^Strutt, Joseph (1786). "P.C. Canot". A Biographical Dictionary Containing All the Engravers, From the Earliest Period of the Art of Engraving to the Present Day. Vol. 1. London: Robert Faulder. p. 173.
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Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Canot, Pierre Charles". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.