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- Creator:
- Mason, James, approximately 1723-1805, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1762]
- Call Number:
- Drawer 762.00.00.54+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of Havana harbor, with the HMS Orford at anchor, centre, other warships lying heads to sea; cannon and provisions being manhandled ashore. The beach is filled with troops and tents
- Alternative Title:
- Perspective view of landing the cannon, bombs, provisions, and water, for the army, June 30th between 6 and 7, in the evening ...
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Engraved after a painting by Serres based on a drawing made on the spot by Philip Orsbridge, whose name is engraved here "P.O.R. Sbridge"., 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., and "Plate 7"--Lower right corner.
- Publisher:
- J. Bowles?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Cuba. and Havana (Cuba)
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Campaigns, Harbors, Naval warfare, Warships, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To Mariot Arbuthnot Esqr., Commander of His Majesty's Ship of War Orford, at the reduction of the Havannah in the year 1762, this perspective view of landing the cannon, bombs, provisions, and water, for the army, June 30th between 6 and 7, in the evening the Orford making signals to the Commodore; with the Dragon, Cambridge, & Marlboroough, lying with their heads to the sea, for the Sterling Castle, to get to the westward of them : is most humbly inscribed by one of his lieutenants ... P.O.R. Sbridge / [graphic]
