The Armada Flying to Calais, 1739 (engraving)

Armada series no. 9. Spaniards dislodged by Fireships seen from French Coast - 28 July 1588. Engraving with a wide border incorporating portraits of Lord Adrmiral Charles Howard, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Thomas Garrat, Sir Roger Tounsand, Sir William Winter, the Earl of Northumberland, Sir Robert Cary and Sir Martin Frobisher. Engraving from a tapestry that depicted the defeat of the Spanish Armada that once hung in the House of Lords. The tapestries had been commissioned by Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral under Elizabeth I, and the man who commanded the English fleet against the Armada. The designs for the tapestries were drawn by Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom (1562-1640) and woven in the Delft workshop of Francis Spierincx.