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Lot 663
Rare Period View of Gibraltar's Fortifications Under Attack
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Plan of the Combined Attacks by Land and Sea to Take by Assault the Fortress of Gibraltar / Done by an Engineer in the French Army (London: S. Hooper, 1782), copperplate engraving with outline color, depicting a combined effort mounted by the French and their Spanish allies during the "Great Siege of Gibraltar" of 1779-1783.

DOA 26 x 17 in.

Private Collection, Wrightville Beach, North Carolina

Foxing and overall soiling, some creases; plate impression is visible, however the sheet was not examined out of the frame.