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Artist/Maker
Romeyn de Hooghe
Dutch, 1645 – 1708
Date1677
MediumEngraving
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 16 1/4 × 19 13/16 in. (41.3 × 50.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection of Hamilton College
Object number1971.45
Not on view
DescriptionThis print depicts a battle between Dutch and French troops that took place in 1677 in Tobago. The Dutch had launched a campaign to end privateering in the Caribbean, during which they clashed with a French squadron. The Dutch were badly defeated.
Battle scenes, map and key. The English took the French colony of Tobago in March 1677; the French returned and retook it December 1677.
Published ReferencesHough, Samuel J. and Penelope R.O. Hough, THE BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION AT HAMILTON COLLEGE: A CATOLOGUE OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTS, MAPS, AND DRAWINGS (Trustees of Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1994), 331, catalogue no.P1.
Additional Details
Exhibition History
2007
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "The Beinecke Collection," June 21 - September 16, 2007 (no catalog).
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "The Beinecke Collection," June 21 - September 16, 2007 (no catalog).
Published References
Hough, Samuel J. and Penelope R.O. Hough, THE BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION AT HAMILTON COLLEGE: A CATOLOGUE OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTS, MAPS, AND DRAWINGS (Trustees of Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1994), 331, catalogue no.P1.
Inscribed
Inscribed verso lower right in pencil: Romeyn de Hooge
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