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Siege of Gibraltar, 1782
GENERAL ELIOTT on the KINGS BASTION, / GIBRALTAR, SEPT.R 13, 1782
published 1785Aquatint with etching and stipple; printed on paper; laid down on paper, the paper backing brought round the edges of the recto | 46.0 x 58.2 cm (image) | RCIN 734083
Not in Parker. Crookshank, Section 33, no.38, records this print with a publication date of Dec. 24th, 1788. This may be a misprint for 1785; he states that this is a 'scarce plate of which only reprints are usually met with'.
Dedication: [bottom, below title:] Most Humbly Inscribed to the OFFICERS of the ROYAL REGIMENT of ARTILLERY. By their most Obedient Servant G.F. Koehler L.t Roy.l Artillery.
Condition: one fold line.
William Faden (1 July 1749-21 March 1836) (publisher) [bottom centre, below text:] Pub.d as the Act directs Dec.r 24. 1785 by W. Faden. Corner of St Martins Lane Charing Cross.
After George Frederick Koehler (1758-d. 1800) (artist) [bottom left, below edge of view:] G.F. Koehler Aid de Camp & Ass.t Engineer. del,,t
Thomas Malton the Younger (1748-1804) (engraver) [bottom right, below edge of view:] T. Malton fec.t
Royal Artillery regiment (dedicatee)
Watermark: Dovecote; countermark: 178[?]
Condition: one fold line
41.8 x 58.2 cm (neatline)
46.0 x 58.2 cm (image)
48.0 x 61.5 cm (platemark)
48.6 x 62.2 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
GENERAL ELIOTT on the KINGS BASTION, / GIBRALTAR, SEPT.R 13, 1782. [bottom centre, below view]
Dedication:
[bottom, below title:] Most Humbly Inscribed to the OFFICERS of the ROYAL REGIMENT of ARTILLERY. By their most Obedient Servant G.F. Koehler L.t Roy.l Artillery.
Annotations:
George III heading [black pencil:] Military Gibraltar 13 Sep 1782 Port folio No 3.
Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil, obscured by paper backing: the old heading; bottom left, black pencil:] Cust 92 h*; [left, black pencil, obscured by paper backing:] 18; [top left, black pencil:] 18; [top right, black pencil:] 27; [bottom right, black pencil:] Crookshank p 32 No 38 [and] AMOT 1260 [and] 16½" x 22 13/16" [and] 1782-27; [centre, black pencil:] 1-1 Portraits.
K. Mil. dummy sheet:
Title [ink:] General Elliot on the King's Bastion, Gibraltar; Sept.r 13.th 1782: by Lieu.t G. F. Koehler, / engraved by Malton, published by Faden 1785 / Port-folio N.o [black pencil:] 3 ... 2 Table / [in a modern hand:] UL Naval [the naval is crossed out in black pencil] / [George III heading in black pencil and red ink:] Gibraltar 13 Sep. 1782; [bottom right, black pencil, erased:] Oversize folder Box XIV.
Watermark: J WHATMAN / 1811.
Size: 48.1 x 33.3 cm (sheet).George III catalogue entry:
Gibraltar General Elliot on the King’s Bastion, Gibraltar 13.th Sept.r 1782, by Do [i.e. Koehler, Malton and Faden.].
Subject(s)
Gibraltar, British Overseas Territory (36°08'00"N 05°21'00"W)
Bibliographic reference(s)
C. de W. Crookshank, Prints of military operations: a catalogue raisonné with historical descriptions covering the period from the Norman Conquest to the campaign in Abyssinia, London 1921, section 3, no.38
J. Falkener ‘Eliott, George Augustus, first Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar (1717–1790)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
H. Parker, Naval battles from the collection of prints formed and owned by Commander Sir Charles Leopold Cust. With an introduction by C.N. Robinson, 2 vols., London 1911
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