Based on a work by Auguste-Louis de ROSSEL de CERCY Naval battle fought on July 21, 1781, by Mr. de La Pérouse, captain of ships. Paris, Mérigot the Younger, 1790. Etching, engraving. 56 x 77 cm (image size). Stains. Gilded frame with pearl and ova friezes. Engraving by François Jacques Dequevauviller after the original painting ????? depicting the naval battle fought on July 21, 1781, by the Comte de La Pérouse against six British warships off the coast of Louisbourg on Île Royale (now Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia), during the American War of Independence.