NAM.1982-08-96-1

The Soldier’s Grave / The Royal Visitant approaching the tomb of his departed friend, 1791 (c). Coloured stipple engraving by and after Mary Trotter, nd. Published by Stokes, 1791 (c). Oval, shows the Duke of York at the tomb of Gen Eliott, Lord Heathfield, with a harbour and the Rock of Gibraltar in the background. Eliott’s tomb was never in Gibraltar - he was originally buried at Schloss Kalkofen in Aachen, where he had died, before being reinterred in England, firstly at Heathfield then at Buckland Monachorum.

Gibraltar, Siege of, 1779-83 (American War of Independence, Gibraltar 1779-1783)