2-704-664 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sea Fight Between the English and Dutch Off Ter Heyde, August, 1653', (1914). 'The Battle of Terheide', depiction of a naval battle fought on 10 August 1653 between the English and Dutch fleets during the Anglo-Dutch Wars. The largest vessel in the Dutch fleet, the 'Brederode', commanded by Admiral Maerten Harpertsz Tromp, is firing its cannons at an English ship (centre). The Dutch won the battle but lost Tromp who was fatally wounded. Painting in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. From "Bibby's Annual 1914", edited by Joseph Bibby. [J. Bibby & Sons, London, 1914]