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3 items extracted from WO 44/72. Gibraltar. 3 sheets of watercolour sketches. (1)...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/101
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This record is about the 3 items extracted from WO 44/72. Gibraltar. 3 sheets of watercolour sketches. (1)... dating from 1782 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MFQ 1/101
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1782
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Description (What the record is about)
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3 items extracted from WO 44/72. Gibraltar. 3 sheets of watercolour sketches. (1) 'A View from the Flag Staff on the Grand Battery ...'. (2) Sheet bearing views of the port bow and starboard side of a Spanish floating battery. Dated, on the dorse, September 1782. (3) Sheet bearing a view of a floating battery and 2 sections of the decks, labelled in French, showing cannons. Scale: 11.5 cm to 230 pieds [1:85] (sections only). Dimensions: (1) 26 cm x 40 cm; (2) 24 cm x 40 cm; (3) 38 cm x 49 cm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- MPM 42-43
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entries 1807-1809
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3983122/
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