PINE, John (1690-1756, engraver). The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets in the memorable year 1588 . London: [William Bowyer for] J. Pine, 1739.
PINE, John (1690-1756, engraver). The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets in the memorable year 1588 . London: [William Bowyer for] J. Pine, 1739.] 2° (484 x 372mm). 10 double-page plates of sea battles printed in green surrounded by a border of medallion portraits in black, 10 maps printed in green on 5 double-page plates with historiated borders in black, double-page engraved map of the British Isles showing the track of the Armada. (Lacking the engraved title, without the two maps of Cornwall & Devon and the Thames as often, map 5 with short marginal tears neatly repaired to verso, faint spotting and browning mainly confined to margins and versoes.) Late 18th/early 19th-century tree calf, covers with gilt borders (rebacked with morocco spine, extremities lightly rubbed, covers scuffed). Provenance : H. Thomspon (pencil gift inscription dated 15 December 1890, to:) -- A.H. Bright. FIRST EDITION . Bowyer's records show two printings of 400 and 250 copies respectively. The 'Account of the Spanish Invasion' preceding the plates is by Philip Morant (1700-1770). Following the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Lord Howard of Effingham, British High Admiral, had commissioned Robert Adams to produce a series of charts representing the naval action, from which Hendrik Cornelius Vroom produced the designs for a series of tapestries. After being sold to James I, the tapestries came to furnish the House of Lords but one was stolen and lost, and the rest were burned in the fire that raged through the Palace of Westminster in 1834. Berlin Kat. 1677; Lewine p. 419.
PINE, John (1690-1756, engraver). The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets in the memorable year 1588 . London: [William Bowyer for] J. Pine, 1739.
PINE, John (1690-1756, engraver). The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets in the memorable year 1588 . London: [William Bowyer for] J. Pine, 1739.] 2° (484 x 372mm). 10 double-page plates of sea battles printed in green surrounded by a border of medallion portraits in black, 10 maps printed in green on 5 double-page plates with historiated borders in black, double-page engraved map of the British Isles showing the track of the Armada. (Lacking the engraved title, without the two maps of Cornwall & Devon and the Thames as often, map 5 with short marginal tears neatly repaired to verso, faint spotting and browning mainly confined to margins and versoes.) Late 18th/early 19th-century tree calf, covers with gilt borders (rebacked with morocco spine, extremities lightly rubbed, covers scuffed). Provenance : H. Thomspon (pencil gift inscription dated 15 December 1890, to:) -- A.H. Bright. FIRST EDITION . Bowyer's records show two printings of 400 and 250 copies respectively. The 'Account of the Spanish Invasion' preceding the plates is by Philip Morant (1700-1770). Following the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Lord Howard of Effingham, British High Admiral, had commissioned Robert Adams to produce a series of charts representing the naval action, from which Hendrik Cornelius Vroom produced the designs for a series of tapestries. After being sold to James I, the tapestries came to furnish the House of Lords but one was stolen and lost, and the rest were burned in the fire that raged through the Palace of Westminster in 1834. Berlin Kat. 1677; Lewine p. 419.
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