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
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