To their Graces the Duke and Dutchess of Ancaster This Representation of the Embarkation Of her Majesty Queen Charlotte at Stade; With a View of the Royal Yatchs, &c. &c. is humbly Inscribed By their Graces' Most Devoted & Obliged Servant. Thomas Allen. [&] ... This View of Harwich, and the Yatchs going out, With Lord Anson returning the Salute from Landguard Fort is most humbly Inscribed ...
T. Allen pinx. P.C. Canot sculp. Printed for Jn.o Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill; & Carington Bowles, next the Chapter House in St Paul's Church Yard [n.d., c.1765). A pair of very scarce engravings. Each c. 425 x 605mm (!6¾ x 23¾"), with large margins Repaired tear in margin of first plate. A pair of maritime scenes depicting the passage to England of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz for her marriage to George III in 1761. The first shows her departure from Stade in Lower Saxony on 28 August 1761, the second her arrival at Harwich on the 6th September, after a 10-day voyage hampered by three severe storms.
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