This Print Representing the British Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, with Vice Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. and Rear Admiral Thomas Graves Entering the Sound, and passing the Castle and Fortress of Cronenburgh, on the 28 of March 1801, Is Dedicated ... to Earl Spencer ...

Mounted aquatint and etching, after the watercolour made in January 1802 by Pockock (PAJ2305). Portfolio. The British fleet is shown passing up the sound between Denmark and Sweden on 28 March 1801. The 'Elephant' (Nelson’s flagship) is shown second in the line of British ships, behind 'Monarch'. One of the small vessels on the far right is the lugger 'Lark'.

Object Details

ID: PAJ2500
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Robinson Kittoe; Pocock, after Nicholas Bluck Ackermann, Robert
Places: Oresund; Kronborg Castle
Events: Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
Vessels: Elephant (1786); Monarch (1765) Lark (1799)
Date made: 20 May 1802
People: Pocock, Nicholas; Robinson Kittoe Bluck
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Mount: 791 mm x 1050 mm
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