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- 1640 (Creation)
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2 illustrations mounted on individual backings, mounted together on 1 backing: black and white; engraving; 49.6 x 14.9 cm (left plate), 50.3 x 14.8 cm (right plate) on 100.6 x 16.3 cm first backing on 111.9 x 27.9 cm second backing
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View of the Spanish, Dutch and English Fleets off Deal, comprising two prints mounted on individual backings, mounted together on one backing.
'Vera Et Exacta Delineato Classium Hispanicae, Anglicae, et Holladicae, prout in Freto Brittanico iuxta Dealam Castrum et Sandvicum in primo congressu, ante prelium se ostenderunt, Anno 1640'
'Do. Cornelio Boll. Ant[u. si] Navium Pictori celeberrimo, huiq[ue] rei simul spectatori [s]uo Amititiae ergo, Wencellaus Hollar Bonem, delineator, D.D.D.'
'W. Hollar fecit'
'Deal v [and] Sandwich' endorsed in manuscript in ink at bottom margin.
[Pennington, 'A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-77' (Cambridge: University Press, 1982), No. 548]
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- Latin