Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar… by John Singleton Copley

Mounted officer points at a burning ship as red-coated soldiers fire a cannon while sailors struggle in the sea below.

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Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 (The Siege of Gibraltar), John Singleton Copley (1738), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A large oil composition shows a mounted officer in a white horse pointing toward a burning vessel while red-coated soldiers man a cannon on a stone parapet. In the lower left, sailors struggle in churning water beside wrecked boats and drifting debris, with flames and smoke filling the sky.

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1738

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