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Action with the Spanish Slave Frigate 'Velos Passaheros' Captured by Boarding by H.M. Ship 'Primrose' Commander W. Boughton, off Wydah Bight of Benin, September 6, 1830

Edward Duncan · c. 1831

Edward Duncan: English, 1803 - 1882

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Action with the Spanish Slave Frigate 'Velos Passaheros' Captured by Boarding by H.M. Ship 'Primrose' Commander W. Boughton, off Wydah Bight of Benin, September 6, 1830 — Edward Duncan

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Action with the Spanish Slave Frigate 'Velos Passaheros' Captured by Boarding by H.M. Ship 'Primrose' Commander W. Boughton, off Wydah Bight of Benin, September 6, 1830

c. 1831

Yale Center for British Art

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Edward Duncan. Action with the Spanish Slave Frigate 'Velos Passaheros' Captured by Boarding by H.M. Ship 'Primrose' Commander W. Boughton, off Wydah Bight of Benin, September 6, 1830. Image credit: Edward Duncan; Source credit: Yale Center for British Art. Wikimedia Commons. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Resized and JPEG-compressed; selected source frame preserved.

Collection: Yale Center for British Art

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Edward Duncan. Action with the Spanish Slave Frigate 'Velos Passaheros' Captured by Boarding by H.M. Ship 'Primrose' Commander W. Boughton, off Wydah Bight of Benin, September 6, 1830. Image credit: Edward Duncan; Source credit: Yale Center for British Art. Wikimedia Commons. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Resized and JPEG-compressed; selected source frame preserved.