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Description: | An annotated plan that is inscribed by Pocock with ship names and other details needed for composing pictures of the action. The 'Redoutable', 'Temeraire' and 'Fougueux' are shown locked together, close to the 'Victory', and the 'Leviathan' with the 'San Augustin'. Dumanoir (one of the subordinate French flag-officers) with four ships in line is shown to windward (west); 'four or five sail going to leeward' to the north-east and 'Eight or ten of the Enemy forming to Leeward under Adml Gravina', the Spanish commander-in-chief, to the south-west.
While the sheet has been written on in all orientations the main ship position information has been composed looking from the north. This broadly relates the plan to Pocock's oil view of 1807, which shows the end of the action, and also takes that viewpoint (BHC0549). Exhibited: NMM Pocock exhib. (1975) no.88. Notes for a rough sketch of a figurehead are on the reverse.
Box Title: D.88 M1104-1107, 1110-1111. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | drawings Pocock Nicholas | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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