A View of the Attack made on the Fort of Geriah

By Admiral Watson, 13 February 1756 Print maker: Canot was born in France in about 1710. In 1740 he moved to England, where he lived there the rest of his life. He was elected an Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy in 1770, and died at Kentish Town, then just outside London, in 1777.] He engraved a large number of landscapes, sea-pieces, and other subjects after artists including Jan van Goyen, Lorrain and Jean Pillement. Joseph Strutt believed that his best prints were some large plates of maritime subjects after the works of Richard Paton. Description: A fleet of ships of a British-led Indo-Portuguese force of the East India Company under the command of Admiral Charles Watson, in formation in front of a fortified island, the stronghold of the Maratha pirate Tulagee Angria, with a flagpole on a hill in the centre and a line of fire barges approaching from the left; plate XI of a series. Etching

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