View of Cape of Good Hope, 1757 (Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape, South Africa) 34°21'30"S 07°00'00"E

Richard Paton (1717-91) (artist and publisher) [bottom left, outside neatline:] Design’d & Painted by R Paton.

Pierre Charles Canot (1710-77) (engraver) [bottom right, outside neatline:] Engrav’d by P.C. Canot.

Robert Willock (active 1732-1770s) (publisher) [below title/dedication:] London 15.^th April 1758, Published According to Act of Parliament, To be had of R. Paton in Wardour Street, Soho, & R. Willock in Cornhill.

Court of Directors of the East India Company : London (dedicatee)

Subject(s)

Watermark: Indistinct: dovecote?

32.5 x 49.6 cm (neatline)

35.9 x 49.6 cm (image)

37.3 x 53.0 cm (platemark)

41.1 x 57.3 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

To the Honourable the COURT of DIRECTORS of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the EAST INDIES. / This Representation of the Engagement, between their Ships Suffolk Houghton and Godolphin and Two French Ships of War; on the 9.^th day of March 1757. / Is Inscrib’d by their Most Obedient, Humble Servant, Rob.^t Willock. [bottom, in margin]

Annotations:

George III heading: Naval Engagement 9 March 1757.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil:] 58.

George III catalogue entry:

Naval Engagement Representation of the Engagement between the East India Company’s Ships Suffolk, Houghton and Godolphin, and two French Ships of War on the 9.^th of March 1757: by R. Paton, engraved by Canot and published by Willock, 1758.

Bibliographic reference(s)

H. Parker, Naval battles from the collection of prints formed and owned by Commander Sir Charles Leopold Cust, 2 vols, London 1911, no.58.a