Aboukir and River Nile, 1798

TO THE RIGHT HON.BLE LORD VISCOUNT NELSON This Plate representing the BATTLE OF THE NILE. / FOUGHT AUG.T 1 1798. / Is most respectfully Inscribed BY HIS LORDSHIP's HUMBLE SERV.T J. FITTLER

James Fittler (1758-1835) (engraver and publisher) [bottom left, below title:] Engraved by Ja.^s Fittler. A.R.A. Marine Engraver to His Majesty from a Picture by P.I. de Loutherbourg Esq.^r R.A.; [bottom right, below title:] Publish'd as the Act directs by James Fittler N.^o 62. Upper Charlotte Street. Fitzroy Square. London. Jan.^y 1803.

After Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812) (artist)

Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) (dedicatee)

Watermark: None visible

Condition: no fold lines; paper backing brought round edges of recto

57.7 x 76.4 cm (image and neatline)

not visible (platemark)

59.5 x 79.7 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

TO THE RIGHT HON.^BLE LORD VISCOUNT NELSON This Plate representing the BATTLE OF THE NILE. / FOUGHT AUG.^T 1 1798. / Is most respectfully Inscribed BY HIS LORDSHIP's HUMBLE SERV.^T J. FITTLER. [bottom, below view]

Annotations:

George III heading [black pencil:] Military Naval Engagement of the Nile 1 Aug 1798 Port folio No 5.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil, obscured by paper backing: the George III heading; bottom left, black pencil, circled:] 134.h; [top right, black pencil:] 44; [centre, black pencil, obscured by paper backing:] 41.

George III catalogue entry:

Naval Engagement View of the Battle of the Nile fought on the 1.^st of August 1798: by P.I. de Loutherbourg, engraved by Fittler, 1803.

Bibliographic reference(s)

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, London 1911, no.134.h. Parker has the date of publication as December 1862; this may refer to a reprint