3 aqiuatints : The Lake of Tiberia; The Grtand Viziers Tent; Jezzar Pacha Condemning a Criminal from Picturesque Scenery of the Holy Land & Syria

by F. B Spilsbury

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

aprox 13 x 18 inches. Very Good. Item #321946 F.B. Spilsbury was a surgeon on board the H.M.S. Tigre, which together with the H.M.S. Theseus, under the command of Commodore Sir Sydney Smith, were sent on a naval mission to the Holy Land and Syria. This operation was launched as part of the overall mission to counter the military campaigns of Napoleon in the Middle East in 1799 and 1800.Spilsbury's original on-site sketches of famous

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