VIII: The Spanish Fleet is seen sailing up the Channel, intending to stop at Dunkirk or Calais, where they were to be join’d by the Duke of Parma: The English follow them close

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

France

Subjects

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

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

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

Title

VIII: The Spanish Fleet is seen sailing up the Channel, intending to stop at Dunkirk or Calais, where they were to be join’d by the Duke of Parma: The English follow them close

Date

24 June 1739

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, November 1956

GAC number

3621