X: The Spaniards make the best of their way for the Northern Seas; and are, in the mean time, very much battered by the English, who closely pursue them. The chief Galleass is stranded near Calais

Location

Country: Bulgaria
City: Sofia
Place: British Embassy

People

Charles, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham and 1st Earl of Nottingham Howard (1536 - 1624), Edward Fenton ( - 1603), Sir Robert Southwell ( - 1598), Edmund, 1st Earl of Mulgrave Sheffield (1565 - 1646), George, 3rd Earl of Cumberland Clifford (1558 - 1605), Thomas, 1st Earl of Suffolk Howard (1561 - 1626), Sir Francis Drake (1540 - 1596), Mr Willoughby , Sir Martin Frobisher (1535? - 1594), Sir Edward Hoby (1560 - 1617), Sir Robert Crosse (c.1547 - 1611), Sir Thomas Vavasour (1560 - 1620), Charles, 8th Baron Mountjoy and Earl of Devonshire Blount (1563 - 1606), Thomas, 1st Earl of Exeter Cecil (1542 - 1623), Mr Knevet , Sir Horatio Palavicino (c.1540 - 1600), George Fenner (c.1540 - 1618), Lord Henry Seymour (1552 - ), Benjamin Gonson ( - 1600), Sir John Hawkins (1532 - 1595), Christopher Baker , Sir George Becton

Places

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, male portrait, seascape/coastal scene, townscape/cityscape, sea, coat of arms, Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604), house, church, spire, Armada, ship

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Clement Lemprière ( - 1746)
John Pine (1690 - 1756)

Title

X: The Spaniards make the best of their way for the Northern Seas; and are, in the mean time, very much battered by the English, who closely pursue them. The chief Galleass is stranded near Calais

Date

24 June 1739

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, November 1956

GAC number

3622