View of naval battle at Belle-Isle, 1759 (Belle Île, Brittany, France) 47°19'59"N 03°11'13"W

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

Pierre Charles Canot (1710-77) (engraver) [bottom right, below edge of view:] P.C. Canot sculp.

Robert Willock (active 1732-1770s) (print seller) [bottom, below title:] London, Publish’d according to Law, 16 March 1761. To be had of R. Paton in Wardour Street Soho, and R. Willock, Bookseller in Cornhill.

Edward Hawke, Baron Hawke (1705-81) (dedicatee)

Subject(s)

Watermark: None visible

Condition: no fold lines

39.5 x 61.9 cm (neatline)

43.5 x 61.9 cm (image)

44.9 x 64.9 cm (platemark)

46.1 x 65.8 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

To the Hon,,^ble Sir EDWARD HAWKE, Admiral of the Blue, and Knight of the most Hon,,^ble Order of the Bath, &c,,^a / This Representation of the Glorious DEFEAT, of the French Fleet, Commanded by Marshal Conflans, off Belle-Isle, on the 20,,^th of November 1759, by a Fleet of HIS MAJESTY’S Ships under His Command, / Whereby they were prevented Escorting a Body of Forces to Invade the British Dominions; Is most humbly Inscribed by his Most Devoted and Obedient Servant / Rich.^d Paton. [bottom centre, below view]

Additional text:

[bottom left, left of title, a recapitulation of the numbers of ships, guns and men of the English line and, bottom right, of the French line.]

Annotations:

George III heading: [black pencil:] Military Naval Engagement 20 Nov 1759 Port folio No 5.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [bottom left, black pencil, obscured by paper backing: the old heading; bottom left, black pencil:] 65.; [centre left, black pencil, obscured by paper backing, in large numerals:] 91; [bottom right, black pencil:] G 28; [top left, black pencil:] 91.

K. Mil. dummy sheet:

Title [ink:] Representation of the Defeat of the French Fleet, commanded by Marshal Conflans, / off Belle-Isle. on the 20.^th of Nov.^r 1759; by a Fleet of His Majesty's Ships, commanded by / Admiral Sir Edward Hawke: - by R. Paton, engraved by Canot 1761 / Port-folio N.^o [black pencil:] 5- 2 Table / [black pencil, in a modern hand, crossed out in black pencil:] UL - Naval Topog / [black pencil, erased and partly legible, old heading?:] [?] 1759 / [George III heading, red ink:] Naval Engagement 20 Nov. 1759. 
Watermark: JWHATMAN / 1811. 
Size: 47.5 x 33.3 cm (sheet).

George III catalogue entry:

Naval Engagement Representation of the defeat of the French Fleet commanded by Marshal Conflans off Belle-Isle on the 20.^th of Nov^r 1759 by a Fleet of His Majesty’s Ships commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Hawke: by R. Paton, engraved by Canot, 1761.

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, 2 vols., London 1911, no.65.b