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Sotheby's inventory no. P45

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: on recto, scraped out in the aquatinted plate, l.l.:R Dodd; in print, l.l.:Robt. Dodd fecit/OBSERVER'S FORCE/12 Guns 6 prs./60 Men./London,Publish'd September 1st; 1784, by; l.r.:JACKS FORCE/16 Guns 9 prs./65 Men./ROBT. DODD No.32 Edgware Road.; b.:A View of his Majesty's Brigg OBSERVER, commanded by Lieut. John Crymes (to whome this Print is Inscribed) Engaging the American Privateer/Ship JACK, John Ropes Commander, (by Night) on the 29th. of May 1782, off the Harbour of Halifax Nova Scotia./The Observer brought the Jack to Action at Nine o'Clock in the Evening, the engagement continued warm on both sides till near Midnight when/the Jack struck her Colours, having her Captain & 14 Men killed, with 9 wounded, the Observer 3 killed, her Commander & 7 wounded. (complete transcription)