Captain Sir Edward Pellew's 'Nymphe' boards and takes the 'Cleopatra', 18 June 1793<br>
This drawing is uninscribed. However compositional similarities to PAD8717 suggest that it shows Pellew's capture of the 'Cleopatra' in the first single-ship duel of the French Revolutionary War. The loss of the mizzen mast on the right supports this. See also PAD8718 and the print to which that relates.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nicholas_Pocock" class="extiw" title="w:en:Nicholas Pocock"><span title="British artist (1740-1821)">Nicholas Pocock</span></a>
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