Span. fleet destroyed at Santa Cruz, 1656 [graphic]

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Title: Span. fleet destroyed at Santa Cruz, 1656 [graphic]
Alternative Title: Spanish fleet destroyed at Santa Cruz, 1656
Creator: Stow, James, approximately 1770- printmaker
Contributor: Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845, artist.
Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: July 1795.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Abstract: "Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Hercules seated on a rock in the foreground, looking at a scene of naval battle on a scroll within clouds above which Fame flies with trumpets and banner."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text within image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate [155] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Provenance: Gift of Francis B. Trowbridge to the Yale University Library, 1904. Transferred to Lewis Walpole Library, September 1965.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 48 x 33 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 812 B68
Collection Title: Plate [155] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the first artists in the country, illustrative of the history of England.
Collection / Other Creator: Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834
Collection Date: London : Printed for the proprietor, R. Bowyer, 80, Pall Mall; by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1812.

Genre: Historical reenactments
Engravings England London 1795
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hercules (Roman mythological character),
Subject (Topic): Naval warfare
Subjects: Hercules (Roman mythological character)
Naval warfare
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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