'The Armada in sight, Plymouth hoe', 1880, (1911). A depiction of the apocryphal story that Sir Francis Drake (c1540-1596) played a game of bowls in Plymouth Hoe in 1588 while waiting for the tide to change before sailing out with the English fleet to engage with the Spanish Armada. Painting held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, SydneyFrom Bibby's Annual 1911, [J. Bibby & Sons, Liverpool, 1911]
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