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Inside of a Gallery, Gibraltar.
Cooper Willyams delt. I.C. Stadler sculpt.
London: Pubd. by I. White, Fleet Street, 1801.
Hand-coloured aquatint, image 150 x 220mm. 6 x 8¾". Trimmed to plate.
View inside a defensive fortification carved out of the natural rock of Gibraltar; soldiers and two cannons pointing through holes, a gunner pushing a wheel-barrow in foreground. After Cooper Willyams (1762 - 1816), for his 'A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. ... with a description of the battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798' (1802). Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure. He was present at the Battle of the Nile and according to DNB his is 'the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle'. See BL 210.i.5. Abbey Travel 196, 41.
[Ref: 22162] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
Moors on board the Swiftsure.
Cooper Willyams delt. J.C. Stadler sculpt.
London: Pub. by I. White, Fleet Street, 1801.
Hand-coloured aquatint, 185 x 250mm. 7¼ x 9¾".
Arabs or Berbers drinking tea and smoking long pipes with opium, on board a Royal Navy warship; cannon to right. HMS Swiftsure, a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy was lauched in 1787. After fighting at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 she was captured by the French off the coast of Libya in 1801 (one of only five Royal Navy ships to be captured in all the Napoleonic Wars), subsequently fighting for the French at the Battle of Trafalgar, in which she was recaptured, returning to Royal Navy service. After Cooper Willyams (1762 - 1816), for his 'A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. ... with a description of the battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798' (1802). Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure. He was present at the Battle of the Nile and according to DNB his is 'the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle'. See BL 210.i.5. Abbey Travel 196, 11.
[Ref: 22336] £75.00
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[A Mamaluke delivering a message from Mourad Bey.]
[C. Willyams. J.C. Stadler.]
[London: J. White, c.1801.]
Very fine sepia aquatint, proof before letters. 180 x 245mm (7 x 9¾"), with wide margins. Captioned in ink by hand to lower margin; 'P. 136' in the same hand to upper right margin.
Egyptians and two Europeans, one in a naval officer's uniform, smoking pipes and assembled in an interior. Murad Bey (c.1750 - 1801) was an Egyptian Mamluk chieftain (Bey), joint ruler of Egypt with Ibrahim Bey. Following his defeat at the hands of Napoleon's armies at the Battle of the Pyramids, Murad fled to Upper Egypt, mounting a brief guerrilla campaign against the French. After Cooper Willyams (1762 - 1816), for his 'A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. ... with a description of the battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798' (1802). Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure. He was present at the Battle of the Nile and according to DNB his is 'the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle'. See BL 210.i.5. Abbey Travel 196, 21.
[Ref: 22172] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Flying Bridge on the Po.
Cooper Willyams delt. I.C. Stadler sculp.
London, Pub. by I. White, Fleet Street, 1801.
Sepia aquatint, 185 x 240mm. 7¼ x 9½". Large margins.
Travellers crossing the Po river in northern Italy. After Cooper Willyams (1762 - 1816), for his 'A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. ... with a description of the battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798' (1802). Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure. He was present at the Battle of the Nile and according to DNB his is 'the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle'. See BL 210.i.5. Abbey Travel 196, 36.
[Ref: 22168] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Garden and Monastery of the Capuchins near Syracuse.]
[C. Willyams. J.C. Stadler.]
[London: J. White, c.1801.]
Sepia aquatint, proof before letters, on 'J Whatman' watermarked paper, with large margins, 185 x 245mm. 7¼ x 9¾". Annotated 'face - 35 page' in ink by hand to upper right margin.
Monks and travellers in the sunken gardens of a monastery in Sicily; the building overlooking a rocky cliff in the background. After Cooper Willyams (1762 - 1816), for his 'A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. ... with a description of the battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798' (1802). Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure. He was present at the Battle of the Nile and according to DNB his is 'the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle'. See BL 210.i.5. Abbey Travel 196, 10.
[Ref: 22171] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
Curious Cemetry under the Capuchin Monastery, near Syracuse.
Cooper Willyams delt. I.C. Stadler sculpt.
London: Pub. by I. White, Fleet Street, 1801.
Hand-coloured aquatint, 180 x 245mm. 7 x 9¾". Large margins.
After Cooper Willyams (1762 - 1816), for his 'A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. ... with a description of the battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798' (1802). Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure. He was present at the Battle of the Nile and according to DNB his is 'the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle'. See BL 210.i.5. Abbey Travel 196, 11.
[Ref: 22167] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Val Ombrosa, on the Appenines.]
[C. Willyams. J.C. Stadler.]
[London: J. White, c.1801.]
Sepia aquatint, proof before letters, with large margins, 185 x 245mm. 7¼ x 9¾". Captioned 'Vallombrosa' in ink by hand to lower margin; three-line quotation from Milton's Paradise Lost in the same hand to upper margin.
Vallombrosa is a Benedictine abbey in Tuscany, Italy, south-east of Florence; in the Apennines, it is surrounded by forests of beech and firs. It was founded by Giovanni Gualberto, a Florentine noble, in 1038 and became the mother house of the Vallumbrosan Order. After Cooper Willyams (1762 - 1816), for his 'A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. ... with a description of the battle of the Nile on the first of August 1798' (1802). Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure. He was present at the Battle of the Nile and according to DNB his is 'the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle'. See BL 210.i.5. Abbey Travel 196, 32.
[Ref: 22170] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
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