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Printed and manuscript maps, prints and views of 22 seventeenth-century wars
View of Algiers, 1783 (Algiers, Algeria) 36°45'09"N 03°02'31"E
1783Etching and engraving; printed on paper | 15.2 x 17.2 cm (image) | RCIN 734100
Additional text: [bottom, below title, a description of the action and explanation of symbols on the view.]
Condition: no fold lines; brown discolouration to both sides.
After De Bourville (active 1783) (artist) [bottom left, below edge of view:] Dessiné d’après nature par M.r de Bourville.
Nicolas Ponce (1746-1831) (engraver) [bottom right, below edge of view:] La Gravure dirigé par M.r Ponce.
Subject(s)
Navy-SpainWatermark: None
Condition: no fold lines; brown discolouration to both sides
12.0 x 17.2 cm (neatline)
15.2 x 17.2 cm (image)
17.1 x 21.0 cm (platemark)
25.1 x 36.2 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
VUE DE LA VILLE D’ALGER. / Et du Bombardement de cette Place, Par la flote Espagnole aux ordres de D. Barcelo, en Aout 1783. [bottom centre, below view]
Additional text:
[bottom, below title, a description of the action and explanation of symbols on the view.]
Annotations:
George III heading: Algiers August 1783.
Other annotations: (Recto) [bottom right, black pencil: Algiers/August] 1783; [top left, black pencil, erased and partly legible:] XXIII/[?]. (Verso) none.
George III catalogue entry:
Algiers Vue de la Ville d’Alger et du Bombardement de cette Place par la Flotte Espagnole aux ordres de D. Barcelo en Aout 1783: par M. de Bourville, gravée par Ponce.
Subject(s)
Algiers, Algeria (36°45'09"N 03°02'31"E)
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