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- Nicholas Pocock 1741–1821
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 302 × 445 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Art Fund (Herbert Powell Bequest) 1967
- Reference
- T01009
Catalogue entry
Nicholas Pocock 1741–1821
T01009 The Battle of Lissa 1812
Inscribed ‘N. Pocock 1812’ b.l.
Watercolour, 11¿ x 17½ (30 x 44.5).
Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund from the Herbert Powell Bequest 1967.
Coll: Herbert Powell, entrusted to the N.A.C.F. 1929.
Exh: see Atkins T00964.
The action depicted took place in the Adriatic two miles off Lissa on 13 March 1811, when the French were heavily defeated by Admiral Sir William Hoste’s squadron.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1967–1968, London 1968.
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