drawing
- Museum number
- 1872,0113.374
- Description
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A sea fight, 1628; three English ships capturing a Spanish treasure galleon from Peru, with Spanish galleys attempting to rescue her, two other galleys coming out of a harbour behind a rocky headland at l
Pen and brown ink, and grey wash, on two sheets conjoined
- Production date
- 1628 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 362 millimetres
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Width: 870 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- MS note in Popham - cf. letter from Prof G Callender, Jan 20th 1936. This drawing represents the capture, by three English ships, of a Spanish treasure galleon ... in 1628. The engraving of this published by Monolius, 1630, in National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. The van der Straet attribution is clearly impossible. MS not on mount: "de Gheyn circle. MRK".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,0113.374
