Orme, Edward:: Taking a French Eagle at Barrossa

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Orme, Edward: : Taking a French Eagle at Barrossa

Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 35 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Deighton, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.

The first French Eagle to be captured, from the French 8th Line Regiment at Barrosa on March 5th 1811, in the hands of Sergeant Patrick Masterson of the 87th Irish Regiment. Ensign Edward Keogh, killed as he grasped the Eagle, lies in the foreground., Abbey: Life, 376.

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