print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1871,1209.5351
- Title
- Object: Fort St. Mary
- Description
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Anglo-Dutch troops in Port St Mary, some drawing a cart-load of loot from a church on the left, others fighting skirmishes and officers in the right foreground petitioned by townsfolk, with ships in the bay around a fort in the background; in a rectungular frame with arms and ships above and palms surrounding a plaque below; illustration.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1744 (circa?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 253 millimetres
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Width: 175 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a group of illustrations to a book entitled 'Life and Reign of Queen Anne', as can be ascertained from the traces of letter-press on the verso of the sheets. One possible candidate is 'An Impartial History of the Life and Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne ... Adorn'd with ... cuts', published by R. Offley in 1744, 4to.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
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Associated Event: War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714
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Associated Event: Battle of Cadiz 23 August-30 September 1702
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Life and Reign of Queen Anne
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,1209.5351