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The Dutch in the Medway: De Ruyters Attack on Upnor Castle, 1667, (1890). Creator: Unknown

The Dutch in the Medway: De Ruyter's Attack on Upnor Castle, 1667, (1890). Dutch Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, under the command of Willem Joseph van Ghent and Michiel de Ruyter, was one of the worst defeats in the British Royal Navy's history. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

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Prize plate - "The Cup", 1844. Creator: Unknown

Prize plate - "The Cup", 1844. Horseracing trophy given as a prize at Goodwood Racecourse: ...a group in silver, from a design by Mr. F. Howard, the horse being modelled by Mr. Macarty, and the whole executed under the superintendence of Mr. Baily, R.A. The composition represents a well-known passage, in the escape of Charles II, from the Cromwellites, after the defeat of the Royalists, at the battle of Worcester. The passage in the perilous adventures of the "unkingship", is that in which Charles, disguised as a servant, was riding from the house of Col. Lane to the sea-coast, accompanied by Miss Jane Lane, he was almost discovered by a farrier...The group has been manufactured at the establishment of Messrs. Hunt and Co'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V

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Overmantel Decoration, c. 1675-1677. Creator: Grinling Gibbons (British, 1648-1721)

Overmantel Decoration, c. 1675-1677. Grinling Gibbons was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, of English parents. After training there as an artist, he came to England in the 1660s, and soon began to work as a sculptor, particularly in wood. One of his first large-scale decorative projects was a series of interiors at Cassiobury Park, the residence of the Earl of Essex near London. On the basis of an early 19th-century watercolour, this overmantel has been identified as one of the decorations for the Green Drawing Room of that house

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