Description

Hand-colored aquatint after a painting by Robert Dodd depicting British and French ships at the Battle of Trafalgar,1805. Plate 4 in a series of prints.

"This view of the total defeat of the combined Fleets of France & Spain, with the tenders of the British Fleet saving their conquered enemies from the flames of their own vessel, (L'Achille, a French 74) is most respectfully inscribed to Vice Admiral Lord Collingwood, the Right Honourable Lord Northesk, the several captains, officers, seamen and marines of the Van Division--by their devoted servant, Robert Dodd."

London, published 1843by J. W. Laird, 1 Leadenhall Street