The Cockpit, Battle of the Nile
Shows Nelson seated, waiting to have his wounds attended to, with surgeons treating another wounded sailor.
Aquatint drawn by W Heath, engraved by M Dubourg, published and sold June 4th 1817.
From ‘Historic, Military and Naval anecdotes, of personal valour, bravery and particular incidents which occurred to the armies of Great Britain, 1803-15, and her allies, in the last long-contested war terminating with the Battle of Waterloo’, published by Edward Orme, 1819.
Associated with the Battle of the Nile (1798), Wars of the French Revolution, Egypt (1799-1801).