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The Relief of Gibraltar, 30 April 1704
| titel | The Relief of Gibraltar, 30 April 1704
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| inventarisnummer | BHC0343
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| collectie | Oil Paintings
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| museum | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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| datum | Early 18th century
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| omschrijving | 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.
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| afmetingen | Painting: 736.6 x 1447.8 mm
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