Title:
Anno regni Georgii II, regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, vicesimo secundo : at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the tenth day of November, Anno Domini 1747, in the twenty first year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Second ... of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King ... : and from thence ... twenty ninth day of November, 1748, being the second session of this present Parliament : an act for amending, explaining, and reducing into one act of Parliament, the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's ships, vessels, and forces by sea [fore-edge painting]
Creator:
Great Britain. Sovereign (1727-1760 : George II)
Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Creator:
Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III)
Type:
image
Publisher:
London : Printed by Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan
Date:
1780
Language:
eng
Subject:
Fore-edge painting
Description:
Double fore-edge paintings on each side. Head fore-edge paintings depict British ships of the line. Side paintings depict 1799 Naval battle with British "Clyde" capturing French ship off Bordeaux; Naval battle 1809 and destruction of French fleet. Tail paintings depict British ships of the line.
Description:
Provenance: gift of George III to his son Prince William. Royal binding.
Description:
Photographed by Mitro Hood, 2017-2018
Format:
image/tiff
Relation:
Marion and Henry J. Knott Collection of Fore-Edge Paintings
Identifier:
6122629
Identifier:
FEP 087
Rights:
Loyola Notre Dame Library. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Description:
Title vignette.
Description:
Each part has separate title, but paged continuously.
Description:
Title on [pt. 2]: Anno regni Georgii III, regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, decimo nono : at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty-ninth day of November, Anno Domini 1774, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third ... of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King ... : and from thence ... twenty sixth day of November, 1778, being the first session of the fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain : an act to explain and amend an act, made in the twenty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intitules, An act for amending, explaining, and reducing into one act of Parliament, the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's ships, vessels, and forces by sea.
Description:
Half title: Act 22 Geo. II. For amending, explaining, and reducing into one act of Parliament, the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's ships, vessels, and forces by sea : also act 19 Geo. III. To explain and amend an act, made in the 22d year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intitules, An act for amending, explaining, and reducing into one act of Parliament, the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's ships, vessels, and forces by sea.
Subject:
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject:
Naval law
Subject:
Naval offenses
