Fire Ships of Antwerp | The Lost Collection

Unidentified

Listed twice in van der Doort, WS 179, no 12; WS 181 no 12

Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Fire Ships of Antwerp

Walpole Society reference (1972):

WS 202, №275

Location:

Pictures in Hampton Court 3, 4 & 5 October 1649

Appraisal:

3-0-0

Sold to:

De Critz

Sale date:

18/11/1651

Appears in Charles II c1666:

Hampton Court, no 174, 206 x 18

Identification certainty:

Unknown

Duke of Parma besieging Antwerp, his bridge over the Scheldt he made some 4 miles from Antwerp which the States attempted to blow up with fire-ships but missed, defaced

Siege of Antwerp by the Duke of Parma, who made a bridge over the Scheldt which the States attempted to blow up with fire ships, but to no effect