Sujet
Villafranca - from a sketch by Leclerc, 1858. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Villafranca - from a sketch by Leclerc, 1858. 'This town, which is situated at a short distance...from Nice, rises from a small bay in the form of an amphitheatre, and is defended by a fort. It has...an excellent harbour, with a wet dock. It possesses a productive tunny fishery, and a trade in oil, fruit, silk, wine, corn, and hemp, which affords occupation to its population, amounting to about 2580 souls. The arsenal is composed- firstly, of the Lazaret, a large building divided into three parts, with storehouses, pavilion, chapel, and courtyard. These are to the right...Secondly, of an old slip, with timber-yard, for building purposes; and of a mole, hitherto unfinished, inclosed by a wall. Thirdly, of a careening dock, with ropewalks, forges, workshops, barracks, &c. It will be thus seen that it affords considerable facilities for any purposes to which the Russians may be inclined to appropriate it in connection with a naval station, mercantile or warlike, as the case may be, in the Mediterranean. The Sardinian Government has handed over to the Russians the prison for the convicts condemned to the "travaux forces," the magazines of the building facing the basin, and the magazines of the caserne, or barracks, and a part of the basin'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM23A82_328
Model release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
31,3Mo (2,8Mo) / 32,9cm x 23,9cm / 3880 x 2818 (300dpi)