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Charles Gore 1729-1807
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Description
- Charles Gore
- Shipping off Port Mahon, Minorca
- indistinctly inscribed along border l.c.
- pen and grey and black ink with watercolour over pencil, with pen and ink border
Provenance
Sir Bruce Ingram, (L.1405a);
Purchased from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1963
Catalogue Note
Port Mahon was captured by the British in 1708 and it remained the principal British naval base in the Mediterranean until 1815