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View of the Prizes taken on the 1st of June by E. Howe, at anchor at Spithead.

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

Uncolored aquatint depicting a line of ships at anchor, all with gun ports, and three figures looking out from a rocky promontory in the foreground at left as a small rowboat approaches them. Artist and publisher information printed below image, along with the letters a-f, perhaps to identify the ships. Title is printed below.
Published February 1799.


ship portraits
1799-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Pocock; Pollard, R.; Bunney
ink; paper; mounting
7 in x 9 1/2 in
Britain