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A British Ship of War, as represented in the Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords.

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

Etching depicting a side view of a four-masted sixteenth-century warship, with three rows of guns and a lion figurehead. It flies the Cross of St. George on the stern and a quartered flag with lions and fleur de lys on the main mast. Title and artist attribution is printed in lower margin. There was a series of tapestries depicting the British ships that defeated the Spanish Armada, which hung in the House of Lords until a fire destroyed them in the early nineteenth century; this is likely taken from one of them.


vessel depictions
1800-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Tomkins, Charles
ink; paper; mounting
8 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in
Britain