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Hand-colored print of crowded French boats under cannon fire from a British cliff fortress flying the Union flag, with smoke

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Rehearsal of a French Invasion as Performed before the Invalids at the Islands of St Marcou on the Morning of the 7th of May 1798, Thomas Rowlandson (May 18, 1798), The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Via artnap.com

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A hand-colored etching by Thomas Rowlandson shows a mock French invasion, with crowded open boats and cannons on the water at left and red-coated defenders firing from a cliff fortress at right beneath a British flag.