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25<br />

THE WOODEN WALLS<br />

24<br />

MAIN, James.<br />

'The Situation of the ENGLISH, FRENCH and SPANISH FLEETS, when they begun the Engagement in the<br />

MEDITERRANEAN, on the Eleventh of Feb.y 1743/4. Cape Sicie bearing then N.N.E. & from the Center of<br />

the Fleet about Ten Leagues. The English commanded by Admiral Matthews, Vice Adm.l Lestock and Rear<br />

Adm.l Rowley. ___ The French by Mons.r De Court and Gabaret, and the Spanish by Don Juan Navarro.'<br />

'James Main Delin. W.H. Toms Sculp.' 'This Plate is Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Lords<br />

Commissioners of y.e Admiralty; by their Lordships most Obedient, and most Dutiful Servant, James Main.'<br />

'Publish'd Feb: 29 1744-5 According to Act of Parliament, & Sold by W.H. Toms Engraver in Union Court<br />

near Hatton Garden Holborn, & by the Print sellers of London & Westminster. Price Plain 2.s & 4.s Colour'd.'<br />

London: William Henry Toms [for James Main], Feb: 28, 1745; copperplate engraving, B: 354 x 722<br />

W: 476 x 723 PM: 485 x 734mm, in black and white.<br />

Three vertical folds, with wear, narrow margins, the lower margin with several short tears repaired, with<br />

loss of printed surface, affecting the mapmaker's name, the imprint and the table 'French & Spanish Line of<br />

Battle.'<br />

£800

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