The Mars and the L'Hercule, April 21, 1798 : a transparent print / R.M.
Published / Created:
[London] : Sold and published Feby. 1, 1799, by Edwd. Orme, New Bond Street, London, 1799.
Physical Description:
1 print on wove paper : aquatint ; plate mark 21 x 21 cm, on sheet 44 x 31 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio B 2011 43eYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Title from caption etched below image.Lacks varnishing on reverse."Where may be had a great variety of transparent prints & every requisite for drawing them."--Foot of imprint.BAC: British Art Center copy is printed with dark blue ink.The engraving depicts the British HMS Mars in battle with the French seventy-four Hercule, near the Pointe du Raz on the coast of Brittany, in the moonlit night of 21 April, 1798. The Hercule lost over 300 men in the battle; the Mars lost 31, including Captain Alexander Hood.
Exhibition History:
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
Subject Terms:
Hood, Alexander, 1758–1796. | Mars (Ship : 1794) | Hercule (Ship) | Naval battles -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- History -- 1714–1837. | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789–1799 -- Naval operations. | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789–1799 -- Naval operations, British.
