This fine aquatint illustrates an important battle in the Napoleonic Wars, in which the HMS Spartan captured the French Sparviere in the Bay of Naples. Drawn by Thomas Whitcombe, a leading maritime painter of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and engraved by J. Bailey. Jenkins' work was a renowned contemporary record of Nelson's Navy and the aquatints are considered among the most beautiful and well documented of naval prints.
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Condition: A+
Superb original color with a bit of surface soil in the blank margins.