General Blakeney [engraving]
1756
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
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Title
General Blakeney [engraving]
Published
London : Printed for I. Ryall and R. Withy ..., 1756
Description
1 engraving ; 35 x 25 cm. on a sheet 47 x 30 cm.
Call Number
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
Note
With 8 lines of verse below, and the note that the portrait is taken from one done from the life at Minorca "within these two years."
The imprint includes the phrase: where may be had the latest & best metzotints [sic] of Blakeney ...
Dedicated to "the Laudable Associations of Antigallicans, at whose request at the expense of some of their members it was engrav'd, Novem.r 1756"
Legend: A St. Phillip's Castle; B Charles Fort; C Espland & Arsenal; D Philipet Cove
Blakeney was the governor of Minorca who surrendered to the French after Byng's inconclusive battle with the French fleet. Surrending under honorable terms, Blakeney's forces were to be transported to Gibraltar and not made prisoners of war.
On leaf 37v of The tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
The imprint includes the phrase: where may be had the latest & best metzotints [sic] of Blakeney ...
Dedicated to "the Laudable Associations of Antigallicans, at whose request at the expense of some of their members it was engrav'd, Novem.r 1756"
Legend: A St. Phillip's Castle; B Charles Fort; C Espland & Arsenal; D Philipet Cove
Blakeney was the governor of Minorca who surrendered to the French after Byng's inconclusive battle with the French fleet. Surrending under honorable terms, Blakeney's forces were to be transported to Gibraltar and not made prisoners of war.
On leaf 37v of The tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
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