Greece.- War of Independence.- Reinagle (George Philip) [Illustrations of the Battle of Navarin], 1828.
Greece.- War of Independence.- Reinagle (George Philip) [Illustrations of the Battle of Navarin], 12 plates only, etching and engraving Chine-collé on Whatman wove paper, four sheets with watermark dates of '1827', each sheet approx. 340 x 490 mm. (13 1/2 x 19 1/4 in), some careful restoration to upper left quadrants, mainly in margins, plate 13 appears to have been re-mounted on later paper support, loose and unframed, [Not in Abbey], published by Colngahi, 1828.
⁂ Fought off the west coast of the Peloponnese on 20th October 1827, The Battle of Navarino effectively ended Ottoman resistance to Greek independence; it resulted in the destruction of the allied Turkish-Egyptian fleet by a British-French-Russian fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Sir Edward Codrington.
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Greece.- War of Independence.- Reinagle (George Philip) [Illustrations of the Battle of Navarin], 12 plates only, etching and engraving Chine-collé on Whatman wove paper, four sheets with watermark dates of '1827', each sheet approx. 340 x 490 mm. (13 1/2 x 19 1/4 in), some careful restoration to upper left quadrants, mainly in margins, plate 13 appears to have been re-mounted on later paper support, loose and unframed, [Not in Abbey], published by Colngahi, 1828.
⁂ Fought off the west coast of the Peloponnese on 20th October 1827, The Battle of Navarino effectively ended Ottoman resistance to Greek independence; it resulted in the destruction of the allied Turkish-Egyptian fleet by a British-French-Russian fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Sir Edward Codrington.