Napoleonic Wars (1803-15)
Views of naval engagements and maps of battles
Strait of Malacca and Pulau Aur, 1804
THE FLEET OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, HOMEWARD BOUND FROM CHINA, UNDER THE COMMAND OF NATHANIEL DANCE, / ENGAGING AND REPULSING A FRENCH SQUADRON, CONSISTING OF THE MARENGO OF 84 GUNS ADM.L LINOIS, LA BELLE...
published 20 Sept 1804Aquatint with etching and engraving; printed on paper; hand coloured; mounted on card; the margins of the print have been coloured in grey; the title and text are printed on a separate piece of paper and pasted to the card below the view | 44.7 x 77.5 cm (image) | RCIN 735107
Additional text: [along the bottom of the view, outside the border, the names of the French and British ships below their depiction on the view. Bottom, below the view, a list of the British ships and their captains:] ALFRED Capt.n Farquharson. COUTTS Capt.n Torin. WEXFORD Capt.n Clarke. EXETER Capt.n Meriton. EARL of ABERGAVENNY Capt.n Wordsworth. HENRY ADDINGTON Capt.n Kirkpatrick. BOMBAY CASTLE Capt.n Hamilton. CUMBERLAND Capt.n Farrer. HOPE Capt.n Pendergrass. DORSETSHIRE Capt.n Brown. WARREN HASTINGS Capt.n Larkins & OCEAN Capt.n Lockner. [Bottom right, below view, a list of ships:] COUNTRY SHIPS.
Condition: no fold lines; one pin hole, top right; an abrasion, in the sky area, left, has been covered with blue watercolour; the corners have been rounded. Verso: surface dirt; some black ink smudges.
William Daniell (1769-1837) (artist, engraver and publisher) [bottom centre, below text:] Drawn Engraved & Published by William Daniell, N.o 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London Sept.r 20, 1804.
Watermark: None visible
Condition: no fold lines; one pin hole, top right; an abrasion, in the sky area, left, has been covered with blue watercolour; the corners have been rounded. Verso: surface dirt; some black ink smudges
40.2 x 77.5 cm (neatline)
44.7 x 77.5 cm (image)
cropped (platemark)
47.4 x 79.2 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
THE FLEET OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, HOMEWARD BOUND FROM CHINA, UNDER THE COMMAND OF NATHANIEL DANCE, / ENGAGING AND REPULSING A FRENCH SQUADRON, CONSISTING OF THE MARENGO OF 84 GUNS ADM.L LINOIS, LA BELLE POULE 44, LA SEMILLANTE 36, LA PENSOE 20, AND A DUTCH BRIG OF 18 GUNS OFF PULO AURO, NEAR THE TRAITS OF MALACCA, ON THE XV.TH FEBRUARY 1804. [bottom, below view]
Additional text:
[along the bottom of the view, outside the border, the names of the French and British ships below their depiction on the view. Bottom, below the view, a list of the British ships and their captains:] ALFRED Capt.n Farquharson. COUTTS Capt.n Torin. WEXFORD Capt.n Clarke. EXETER Capt.n Meriton. EARL of ABERGAVENNY Capt.n Wordsworth. HENRY ADDINGTON Capt.n Kirkpatrick. BOMBAY CASTLE Capt.n Hamilton. CUMBERLAND Capt.n Farrer. HOPE Capt.n Pendergrass. DORSETSHIRE Capt.n Brown. WARREN HASTINGS Capt.n Larkins & OCEAN Capt.n Lockner. [Bottom right, below view, a list of ships:] COUNTRY SHIPS.
Annotations:
George III heading [black pencil:] Military. Naval Engagement 15 Feb. 1804.
Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom left, black pencil:] 9; [top left, following on from George III heading, black pencil:] Port-folio N.o 5. (Verso) [bottom left, in Evelyn Heaton-Smith’s hand?, black pencil:] 163.a; [bottom left, in a modern hand, bp:] CM 107 + 108; [bottom right, black pencil:] £2-2-d.
George III catalogue entry:
Naval Engagement The Fleet of the East India Company homeward bound from China under the command of Sir Nathaniel Dance, engaging and repulsing a French Squadron off Pulo Auro near the Straits of Malacca on the 15.th of Feb.y 1804 : by W,m Daniell, 1804. [Marked as missing by Christian Bailey in December 1987.]
Subject(s)
Strait of Malacca (02°00'16"N 102°20'55"E)
Pulau Aur Island, Johore, Malaysia (22°70'00"N 104°31'00"E)
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.163.a
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