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Description: | The oil painting by an unknown British artist executed in a Dutch 17th-century style shows the magnified relief of Gibraltar and its fortifications silhouetted against a clouded Mediterranean sky. In the foreground appears the stylized scene from the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-14, during which an Anglo-Dutch fleet captured the fortress of Gibraltar on 30 April 1704.
caption: The Relief of Gibraltar, 30 Apr 1704 | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | paintings | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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