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The Siege of Copenhagen.
The Siege of Copenhagen. Respectfully dedicated by Boydell & Co. to Lord Cathcart, Admiral Gambier, the Officers, Soldiers and Seamen employed in this undertaking, This View represents the Castles of Cronborg and Elsimborg, the entrance into the Sound, with the British Fleet & Transports.
Drawn by Captain Cockburn of the Royal Artillary. Engraved by R.Pollard & J.C.Stadler.
Pub.d Nov.r 1807, by Boydell & Co., No.90 Cheapside, London.
Coloured aquatint. 440 x 550mm, 17¼ x 21½". Very scarce.
From a series of views about the 'Second Battle of Copenhagen', (16 August - 5 September 1807), a pre-emptive attack on Copenhagen by the British to seize the Danish fleet and stop the Danish from barring British access to the Baltic under pressure from Napoleon.
Crookshank: Section 36, no.22, "A fine and very rare set of aquatints; the only others known to the author are in the British Museum".
[Ref: 8568]   £650.00  
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View of the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich. Dedicated by permission, to the Rigth Hon.ble the Earl of Mulgrave, Master General of the Ordnance, by his most obedient humble Servant, [Jas. Cockburn, Major in the Royal Artillery. ]
View of the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich. Dedicated by permission, to the Rigth Hon.ble the Earl of Mulgrave, Master General of the Ordnance, by his most obedient humble Servant, [Jas. Cockburn, Major in the Royal Artillery. ]
Drawn by Major Cockburn. Engraved by R. Havell & Son. 3 Chapel Street, Tottenham Court Road.
[Published March 30, 1816, for the Proprietor, by Colnaghi & Co, Cockspur Street, London.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 340 x 500mm (13½ x 19¾"). Trimmed, losing end of dedication and publication line.
The Royal Artillery excercising. From "Cockburn's Woolwich'.
Ogilby: 186.
[Ref: 54950]   £390.00  
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