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34919-34922; 34924; 34928-34931: contain letters from R.G. Keats to Vice Admiral Lord Nelson 1803-05
34992, folios 84-85: letter R.G. Keats to William, 1st Earl Nelson, 11.1.1806
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PICTURE CREDITS
Front cover:
Lemuel Francis Abbott, Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1797; one of the earliest versions © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Inside front and back covers:
Nicholas Pocock, Nelson’s Flagships at Anchor, commissioned for Clarke, J.S. and MacArthur, J., The life of Admiral Lord Nelson, KB. (London, 1809) © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Introduction:
Thomas Davidson, England’s Pride and Glory, circa 1890 © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Nelson’s Orders photographed for Lord Bridport, circa 1889 © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
‘Nelson and the Battle of Cape St Vincent’:
Thomas Buttersworth, Sen. (1768-circa 1827), Nelson’s ‘Patent Bridge’ for boarding First Rates © Christie’s Images Limited 2010 George Jones, Nelson Boarding the 'San Josef' at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1829 © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
‘The Life and Career of Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats’:
John Jackson, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats G.C.B., circa 1817 © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London A. Fry, H.M.S. SUPERB (from a sketch in a contemporary Pitcher family album; reproduced by kind permission) Horatio Nelson, Rough sketch of battle plan, 1805 © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Before lot 1:
Lemuel Abbott, Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, circa 1797; the version engraved in 1847 © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London