"Blowing Up The Orient"
Photolithograph probably published in the early twentieth century.
Image size: 6 1/8" x 8 3/16" plus margins.
Very good condition throughout, laid onto cream paper with hand drawn lined border with pencilled details below.
A detail from the painting The Destruction of L'Orient at the Battle of the Nile by George Arnald in the National Maritime Museum. It depicts the crew of an English ship pulling suvivors of the explosion of L'Orient being pulled from the waters of Aboukir Bay.
£25.00 unmounted, unframed