Call Number: Drawer 762.00.00.52 - Yale University Library Search Results

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To the Honble. Augustus John Hervey, Captain in His Majesty's Navy, Coll. of Marines & one of the

Creator:: Canot, Pierre Charles, 1710-1777, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1762]
Call Number:: Drawer 762.00.00.52
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Moro fortress under bombardment from three warships; return fire landing wide."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Perspective view of His Majesty's Ship Dragon commanded by him, Cambridge Wm. Godfrey ...
Description:: Title engraved below image., Engraved after a painting by Serres made after an on-the-spot drawing by Philip Orsbridge, whose name is wrongly given here as "P.O.R. Sbridge"., "Plate 8"--Lower right corner., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all but bottom edge., and Plate also issued with eleven other plates and four pages of text as part of: Britannia's triumph in the year 1762 : being a series of capital prints representing the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army employed in the attack and conquest of the Havannah, under the brave Admiral Pocock, Lord Albemarle, etc., etc. ... London : J. Bowles, 1766.
Publisher:: J. Bowles?
Subject (Geographic):: Havana (Cuba)
Subject (Topic):: History and Warships
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > To the Honble. Augustus John Hervey, Captain in His Majesty's Navy, Coll. of Marines & one of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Bed Chamber; this perspective view of His Majesty's Ship Dragon commanded by him, Cambridge Wm. Godfrey Esq. & Marlborough Thos. Burnett Esq. attacking [the] Moro July 1, 1762 also shewing the distance the Sterling Castle Capt. Campbell (who was appointed to lead the van of this squadron) was during the attack, likewise shewing the land attack; is most humbly inscribed by ... P.O.R. Sbridge / [graphic]