Maps of the Spanish Armada (28 and 31 July 1588), John Pine, 1739 Canvas Print
Two maps (IX-X) with the Spanish and English fleets in the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. On the left card, a ferocious man sits on a rock with two burning torches in his hands. Besides itself a putti on a fish with coat of arms and lightning bolt in the hand. On the other side smoking jugs. On the right map, Fame sits on a rock. She blows a trumpet and holds the weapon of Charles Howard, the Lord High Admiral and commander-in-chief of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada. The cards are framed within an ornamental frame. At the top of the frame a coin with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, flanked by four putti. The coin to the left of it is minted in Zeeland and shows the Spanish ships in a storm with a sun breaking through. On the coin on the right four kneeling and praying persons. On the coat of arms, under the portrait of Elizabeth, hangs a chain with which the English queen restrains Pope Sixtus V, the Spanish king Philip II and Alessandro Farnese. The dark cloud with lightning makes it clear that the proportions are tense. The cartouche with their portraits and text in English and Latin, executed in lobe style, is flanked by two weeping putti and seascapes with ships that perish. The performance is part of a book about the Spanish Armada and the carpets that were commissioned by Charles Howard.
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