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De beroemde Onderneming op de Rivieren van London en Rochester
De beroemde Onderneming op de Rivieren van London en Rochester gedaan den 21, 22 en 23 Junij des Jaars 1667, onder het Opperbevel van den Edel Mogenden Heer Cornelis De Witt, Ruwaard van Putten, Regerend Burgemeester der Stad Dordrecht [...]
Getekend door D.k Langendyk, 1782. in't Koper gesneden door M. D. Sallieth, Rotterdam.
Uit gegeven by D.k Langendyk, M. de Sallieth en Dirk de Jong, te Rotterdam. [1782.]
Line engraving. Sheet 485 x 600mm (19 x 23½"). Trimmed within plate, some creasing, laid on album paper. Messy.
The Dutch surprise raid on Royal Navy ships anchored in the river Medway in June 1667, showing hand-to-hand fighting in small boats in the foreground and the elaborate stern of the British flagship 'Royal Charles' (subsequently towed away by the Dutch) upper left. The Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter is shown standing, sword in hand, in the foreground. When the Dutch withdrew they took the 'Royal Charles' and 'Unity' as prizes which, along with heavy losses of large ships, left England unable to continue the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-7). Engraved by the Prague-born engraver Mattheus de Sallieth (1749-91).
Parker: 21.a
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