Lot 119: CHARLES GORE 1729-1807

SHIPPING OFF PORT MAHON, MINORCA

measurements note
23 by 52.5 cm., 9 by 20 3/4 in.

indistinctly inscribed along border l.c.

pen and grey and black ink with watercolour over pencil, with pen and ink border

PROVENANCE

Sir Bruce Ingram, (L.1405a);
Purchased from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1963

NOTE

Port Mahon was captured by the British in 1708 and it remained the principal British naval base in the Mediterranean until 1815