Entering the Breach of Morro Castle,Storm,ALCIDE,Boats,Ship,c1767,Cuba
Title: Perspective view of entring the breach of the Moro Castle, by storm the 30th of July 1762, ... / Serres pinx ; Canot sculp.
Creator(s): Canot, Pierre Charles, 1710-1777, engraver
Related Names:
Serres, Dominic, 1719-1793 , artist
Date Created/Published: London : Printed for John Bowles in Cornhill, Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, [between 1763 and 1770]
Summary: Print shows Morro Castle in the background with infantry passing through a breach in the walls, and in the foreground, the ship Alcide and numerous long boats with men at the oars.
Notes:
Title from item.
At head of title: To the Honble. Willm. Keppel, Colonel of His Majesty's 56th Regiment of Foot, and Major Genl. on the Expedition under the command of the Right Honble. the Earl of Ablemarle ....
Caption continues: between the Hours of 1 and 2 in the Afternoon, Also a view of His Majesty's Ship Alcide, & a Number of Flat Boats mann'd & arm'd; Is most humbly Inscribed by his most devoted humble Servant Philip Orsbridge.
Drawn on the spot, designed and publd. as the Act directs.
Plate 9.
Library has two copies; other copy lacks printer statement.
Subjects:
Castillo del Morro (Havana, Cuba)
Warships--British--Cuba--1760-1770.
Longboats--British--Cuba--1760-1770.
Campaigns & battles--Cuba--Havana--1760-1770.
Forts & fortifications--Cuba--Havana--1760-1770.
Castles & palaces--Cuba--Havana--1760-1770.
Etchings--British--1760-1770.
Marine prints--1760-1770.
Bookmark /2009633452/
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