The Dutch Raid on the Medway, 1667

The Dutch Raid on the Medway, 1667

SK-A-307

Het verbranden van de Engelse vloot op de rivier de Medway bij Chatham, 20 juni 1667. Episode uit de Tweede Engelse Oorlog. Nederlandse en Engelse oorlogsschepen op zee, in het midden het vlaggeschip The Royal Charles. Tussen de brandende schepen varen meerdere sloepen.

• inscription, on the tafferel of the warship, left: ‘C·R / MATHIAS’
• inscription, on the tafferel of the warship, centre left: ‘IONATHAN’
• inscription, on the tafferel of the warship, far right: ‘C·R / […]AELE BOOM’
• coat of arms, on the tafferel of the warship, centre, beneath the royal coat of arms of King Charles II of Great Britain within the letterd garter of the Order of the Garter: ‘THE ROYÆLE.CHARLES / C·R’
• inscription, on the tafferel of the warship, centre right, above the royal coat of arms of King Charles II of Great Britain within the lettered garter of the Order of the Garter: ‘C·R’
• inscription, indistinct, on the stern of the fireship, left
• inscription, on the tafferel of the warship, right, above the royal coat of arms of King Charles II of Great Britain within the lettered garter of the Order of the Garter: ‘CAROLUS QUINTUS / C·R’

• painter: anonymous, Low Countries
• painter: Peter van de Velde [rejected attribution]

c. 1670

oil on panel

• support: height 72.4 cm x width 107.3 cm
• outer size: depth 6.5 cm (support incl. frame)

1667-06-20

Public domain

…; ? acquired by Izaak Jan Alexander Gogel (1765-1821), fl. 600, for the museum, 1806{According to Bredius’s 1885 catalogue; the 1887 catalogue, p.130, no. 1092, gave the date as 1808. E.W. Moes and E. van Biema, _De Nationale Konst-Gallery en Het Koninklijk Museum_, Amsterdam 1909, pp. 100, 106, 130, 163, 218.}

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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