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Text sheet accompanying the print of the Battle of Cadiz, 1781, Battle between the Dutch Frigates Castor, Captain Pieter Melvill, and Briel, Captain Gerard Oorthuys, and the English Frigate Flora. Captain William Peere Williams, and Crescent, Captain Thomas Pakenham, occurred on 30 May 1781. on the height of Cape St. Marie, Combat, entre les Fregates Hollandoises, & les Fregates Angloises, text sheet, Text sheet with two-frame lists of the strength of the Dutch and English frigates involved in the sea battle near Cadiz between two Dutch frigates Castor and Den Briel and two English frigates Flora and Crescent, May 30, 1781. Left the Castor and Flora in Dutch, right the Briel and Crescent in French., publisher: Smit & Zoon, Johannes, 1782, paper, letterpress printing, text and ornament in letterpress, height 140 mm x width 415 mm, Person, Gerardus Oorthuys, Pieter Melvill van Carnbee, Battle of Cape St. Marie, Period, 1781-05-30, An aged rectangular print with two side-by-side panels, each panel enclosed by a decorative meander border and separated by a narrow blank column; the panels contain dense blocks of printed small serif text arranged in centered and left-aligned paragraphs, with some lines set apart as headings and short columns of tabulated entries near the lower portions; the paper shows a grainy, slightly speckled texture and faint discoloration consistent with age, and there are small ornamental corner motifs within the borders and short horizontal dividing rules above the lower blocks of entries.
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