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• Author/Creator:R. M.
  
• Title:The Mars and the L'Hercule, April 21, 1798 : a transparent print / R.M.
  
• Publication:[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
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio B 2011 43e
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy is printed with dark blue ink.
  
• 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.
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects: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.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1799.
  
• Genre/Form:Aquatins--1799.
  Transparent prints.
  Transparencies.
  Recreations--Great Britain.
  
• Also listed under:Orme, Edward, 1775-1848, publisher.
  Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, September 15, 2016-December 4, 2016)