Coloured etching and aquatint depicting the Cleopatra (or Cleopatre, shown broadside on the right) being captured by the Nymphe. After capture, the Cleopatra became the Oiseau (there was already an HMS Cleopatra). Robert Dodd describes (in the inscription) how he painted the original picture from the 'real ships a few days after the action', and the specific damages to sails etc have been clearly depicted. The Action of 18 June 1793 was the first decisive and one of the most celebrated encounters between British and French frigates during the French Revolutionary Wars.