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File:View of La Valletta during the siege of 1800 engraved by Francis Chesham 1803, after Major James Weir - UK BM 603991001.jpg

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English: View of La Valletta, taken from the Marsa Battery during the Seige in 1800

Print after Major James Weir
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint.
Print maker - Fr Monty

Inscription: to 'Brigadier General Thomas Gresham, then Commanding the Allied Forces in Malta', from 'Major Jas. Weir, Commandant of the Maltese Battallion' around a crest with the motto 'Candide ut Secure' and 'Drawn by Major J. Weir / Engraved by F. Chesham. / Published as the Act directs, by J. Weir, 25th. Jany. 1803.'
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Author Francis Chesham, after Major Weir
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