American Art Collaborative

This may be the original drawing for the copper engraving used as a frontispiece by Gideon Fairman in William Moultrie, "Memoirs of the American Revolution," vol. I (New York, 1802). The French inscription has been identified by Professor Gilbert Chinard and Mr. Stewart W. Jackson as the handwriting of Michelange Bernard de Mangourit (1752-1829), who was appointed French consul at Charlston in 1792 and who seems to have remained there until 1795 or 1796.