Overall: 52.5cm (27.5in) x 41cm (16.2in)
Aquatint. Portrait of Abercromby in full dress coatee dispensing charity to a Highland soldier and his family beneath a palm tree and with a tented camp in the background. Titled beneath the image ‘Genl Sir Ralph Abercromby, K.B. / Relieving a Sick Soldier and Family / Published Nov 22 1802 by I. Hinton, 4 Wells Street, Oxford Street, London. Period ebonised frame.
Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, KB (1734-1801) delivered the first land victory over Revolutionary France at Battle of Alexandria on 21 March 1801 which followed on from the Nelson’s victory at the Nile of 1-3 August 1798. It led to the French being driven out of Egypt and Syria. Abercromby, was fatally wounded during the encounter by a musket ball which could not be extracted. He continued fighting until victory was secured but died some days later (28 March) aboard HMS Foudroyant.