According to Auguste Louis de ROSSEL de CERCY Naval battle fought on December 18, 1779, by Count de La Motte Picquet, squadron commander. Paris, Mérigot the Younger, 1790. Etching, burin. 56 x 77 cm (image size). Stains. Gilded frame with pearl and ovule friezes. Engraving by François Jacques Dequevauviller after the original painting by the Marquis Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy depicting the naval battle that took place on December 18, 1779, off Fort Royal, Martinique, in which a British squadron of thirteen ships commanded by Hyde Parker faced off against La Motte-Piquet’s three ships, which were guarding the entrance to the harbor for a large convoy arriving from France