Additional Makers
Print maker - Matthew Dubourg; Publisher - Edward Orme
Description
Soldiers on a broad road through verdant countryside, some sitting at the side of the road, resting, including several on the left, with a woman who carries a child strapped to her back in a shawl, a laden mule grazing nearby, with two forts, one to left, one right of centre, built on the summits of rounded hills; after Henry Smith. 1813. Hand-coloured aquatint.
Inscription
Lettered below the image with the title, a dedication to 'Field Marshal His Royal Highness Frederic Duke of York and Albany, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces, &c. &c. &c. This View of the strongly impregnable Town of Elvas, on the Frontier of POrtugal, including Forts la Lippe & Lucie, distant glances of Badajos, Albuera, and the Hills erased by the British Army under Field Marshal the Marquis of Wellington, on the march from Talavera, in the campaign of 1809 ...' from 'Robert Daubeny King, Late
Image Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Image Credit
image © Trustees of the British Museum
Location
Elvas, Portugal
Country
Portugal
Medium
Print
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
