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View of the Pass of the Tagus at Villa Velha into the Alemtejo, by the Allied Army, on the 20th May 1811

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Year:
1812
Contributor:
St. Clair, Thomas Staunton, 1785-1847 (artist)
Turner, Charles, 1774-1857 (engraver)
Colnaghi (publisher)
Genre:
aquatints (prints)
Subject:
Great Britain. Army
Peninsular War, 1807-1814 > Campaigns > Portugal
Tagus River (Spain and Portugal)
Local ID:
Gr-B (1812-1815) Great Britain
Extent:
1 aquatint; 51.4 x 34.5 cm.

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Abstract:
2nd in suite of 12 mounted aquatint plates of battles, military and camp scenes, views (by C. Turner after St. Clair); British army fording river in boats; troops in foreground at right, massed in distance on opposite shore at left; rocky cliff embankments in background.
Notes:
Folio, unbound in maroon cloth portfolio, red leather label st. gold "St. Clair Peninsular Campaign - 1810"; titles and margins trimmed away; clean. From 'A Series of Views of the Principal Occurrences of the Campaigns in Spain and Portugal'.
London, Francis Edwards, 1945.

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Collection is open for research.

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St. Clair, Thomas Staunton, "View of the Pass of the Tagus at Villa Velha into the Alemtejo, by the Allied Army, on the 20th May 1811" (1812). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:242137/

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