To Captain Peere Williams his Officers and Seamen, This Plate representing their Engageing & Taking the French Frigate La Nymphe on the 10th of August 1780,is most respectfully Inscribed by their humble Servant Rob.t Dodd.
Painted by Rob.t Dodd. Engraved by Rob.t Pollard.
London, Published as the Act directs, July 2: 1781 by John Harris, No 3. Sweetings Alley, Cornhill. [But c1820.]
Copper engraving with large margins. 350 x 470mm, 13¾ x 18½". Watermarked H Smith 1820. Repaired tear into title area.
The capture of a French 36-gun frigate off Ushant. Brought into the Royal Navy as HMS Nymphe, she was wrecked in 1810 off the Firth of Forth, after her pilot mistook the flame from a lime kiln for the navigation light on May Island.
Parker: 83a.
[Ref: 21929] £380.00
London, Published as the Act directs, July 2: 1781 by John Harris, No 3. Sweetings Alley, Cornhill. [But c1820.]
Copper engraving with large margins. 350 x 470mm, 13¾ x 18½". Watermarked H Smith 1820. Repaired tear into title area.
The capture of a French 36-gun frigate off Ushant. Brought into the Royal Navy as HMS Nymphe, she was wrecked in 1810 off the Firth of Forth, after her pilot mistook the flame from a lime kiln for the navigation light on May Island.
Parker: 83a.
[Ref: 21929] £380.00