LE GENERAL ELLIOT.
mezzotint, engraving
Accession Number
NAM.2003-11-68-1
Description
LE GENERAL ELLIOT Wuo nihil majus meliusve / DEDIE A SON EXCELLENCE, MILORD VICOMTE DE TORRINGTON / Pair d'Angleterre Ministre Plenipotentre de sa Majesté Britannique pres le / Gouvernement Général des Pais-Bas Autrichies...' Uncoloured mezzotint by Martin after De Glim. Published by De Glim, possibly in France, 1782 (c). Depicts Gen Elliot standing full length with his hand on an artillery piece, the destruction of the Spanish floating batteries during the Siege of Gibraltar in the background. Associated with the Siege of Gibraltar, American War of Independence (1782). Associated with Gen George Augustus Eliott, Lord Heathfield
Events
Gibraltar, Siege of, 1779-83 (American War of Independence, Gibraltar 1779-1783)