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Title: Battle of the Nile, on the ensuing morning
Creator: Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815, artist
Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815,engraver
Dodd, Robert, 1748-1815, publisher
Contributor: Congdon, Theodore G., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1799
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a starboard view of a British ship under sail at center, the stern of French ship Le Serieuse just visible as she goes down by the bow at left in the aftermath of the Battle of the Nile in 1798 between the British Royal Navy and the French fleet; another French vessel on fire at right.
"Painted & Engraved by R. Dodd"--text, bottom left margin. "Plate 4."--text, bottom right margin. "The Right honorable Admiral Lord Nelson of the Nile, the several Captains, the Officers, Seamen & Marines under his Command; This Plate, Engraved in Commemoration of their Glorious Victory on the 1st. of August 1798, is with the respect & admiration of their intrepid Conduct on that ever a Memorable Day, humbly Inscribed, By their Obedient Servant, Robt. Dodd."--text, bottom center margin. "Published February 1799 by R. Dodd, No. 41 Charing Cross London, where Prints of most of the Principle Actions of the War may be had."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 aquatint : hand colored ; image 45.56 x 70.01 cm (17 15/16 x 27 9/16 in.) ; overall 52.71 x 77.47 cm (20 3/4 x 30 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priTEC 0080
476164
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23950
Language: English
Subject: Naval battles--Pictorial works
Nile, Battle of the, Egypt, 1798--Pictorial works
Ships--Pictorial works
Intaglio prints--Color--1775-1800. (gmgpc)
Source: Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection.
Naval
Prints
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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