print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1898,0725.8.1823
- Title
- Object: The Attack of Severndroog by Commodore James, 2d. April 1755.
- Description
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Four ships lined up in the right foreground, firing at a fort on a small island, which is in flames, with three other forts on similar small islands, in a diagonal line running just ahead of the shore from the left middle-ground; plate IX , p. 95 of Richard Owen Cambridge 'An Account of the War in India, between the English and French, on the coast of Coromandel, from the Year 1750 to the Year 1760. Together with a Relation of the late Remarkable Events on the Malabar coast, and the Expeditions to Golconda and Surat; with the Operations of the Fleet. Illustrated with Maps, Plans, &c. The Whole Compiled from Original Papers, by Richard Owen Cambridge Esq.' Printed for T. Jefferys (London, 1761)
Etching
- Production date
- 1761
- Dimensions
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Height: 191 millimetres
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Width: 225 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1898,0725.8.1835 for another of the series. The plate also appeared in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' in 1761.
Richard Goddard (email July 2022): This print and 1875,0109.110 are plate IX, p. 95 from An Account of the War in India, between the English and French, on the coast of Coromandel, from the Year 1750 to the Year 1760. Together with a Relation of the late Remarkable Events on the Malabar coast, and the Expeditions to Golconda and Surat; with the Operations of the Fleet. Illustrated with Maps, Plans, &c. The Whole Compiled from Original Papers, by Richard Owen Cambridge Esq. Printed for T. Jefferys, the corner of St. Martin's-lane, Charing-cross (London, 1761) 4to
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: An Account of the War in India, between the English and French, on the coast of Coromandel, from the Year 1750 to the Year 1760
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Acquisition notes
- The group of prints registered under 1898,0725.1 to 8 was recorded as being given by Franks, although it was registered a year after his death. This is because the prints were already in the BM in 1897 as a proposed gift. But they are recorded here as having being bequeathed by him.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1898,0725.8.1823