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    The Armada Tapestries were a series of ten tapestries that commemorated the defeat of the Spanish Armada. They were commissioned in 1591 by the Lord High...
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    Spanish Armada with the Armada Tapestries (1591); these were made in Delft, by a team who also made many tapestries of Dutch naval victories. The Armada set...
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    of Gravelines. Spain portal England portal Armada Memorial Armada Tapestries Invisible armada The Armada Service The English Mercurie Although the English...
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    Above the portraits, at window level, are copies of six of the ten Armada tapestries, which hung in the chamber of the House of Lords until their destruction...
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    Hunter, in Tapestries; Their Origin, History And Renaissance, 1912, calls it The Star of Bethlehem."The Morris Tapestry Works At Merton". Tapestries; Their...
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    painting also serves as a visual record of the appearance of the Armada tapestries, which were destroyed in the 1834 Burning of Parliament. Lord Chatham...
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    Graal tapestries are a set of six tapestries depicting scenes from the legend of King Arthur and the quest for the Holy Grail. The tapestries were commissioned...
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    The Pastrana Tapestries (Portuguese: Tapeçarias de Pastrana) are four large tapestries commissioned by king Afonso V of Portugal to celebrate the successful...
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    during which he had had some success. His portrait was included in the Armada Tapestries. He led and invested in a number of expeditions, but many were turned...
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    October, and at 4:00 pm two gentlemen tourists visiting to see the Armada tapestries that hung there were unable to view them properly because of the thick...
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    the new purpose-built room, which was hung with tapestry depicting the defeat of the Spanish Armada. This apparently tactless gesture was noted by Luisa...
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    place despite the naval repulse delivered to the armada. His portrait was included in the Armada Tapestries. Wynter held command in numerous expeditions Served...
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  • the battle with the Spanish Armada, in command of the Elizabeth Jonas. His portrait was included in the Armada Tapestries. In 1591 the Privy Council asked...
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  • Magazine, November 1834 pp. 477-83. Retrieved 7 June 2014. John Pine,The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords... (1739). Retrieved 18 January 2016. James...
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    record of the Armada. It is probable that Ryther's charts, or Adams's original drawings, were the basis for tapestries of the Spanish Armada, executed by...
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    The Franses Tapestry Archive and Library in London is devoted to the study of European tapestries and figurative textiles. It is the world’s largest academic...
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    Lord Effingham on 26 July 1588. His portrait was included in the Armada Tapestries. Beeston had already fought in France and in Scotland. Some of his...
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    to London. Adams also drew and engraved representations of the Spanish Armada's activities on the British coasts, which were published by Augustine Ryther...
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    the French in 1695 and are now known only from descriptions and from a tapestry copy in the Historical Museum of Bern. The work is thought to have preoccupied...
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    the defeat of the Armada. He also commissioned a Flemish artist, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, to make a series of tapestries on the Armada, based on Augustine...
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    Cromwell was possibly inspired by discussions of the placement of the Armada Tapestries, previously owned by King Charles I. As of 2000[update], no signed...
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  • history. In 1960 he won a Pulitzer Prize for The Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Born in Washington, D.C., Mattingly attended elementary school in Washington...
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    Hugo of Moncada i Gralla (category Spanish Armada)
    from the British Library The story of the Armada battles with pictures from the House of Lords tapestries BBC-ZDF etc. TV coproduction Natural History...
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    of Francis Drake and other explorers and privateers. During the Spanish Armada, Leicester was in overall command of the English land forces. In this function...
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  • Spanish Armada was on its way. Protestant mobs attacked English Catholics who fought back in self-defense. With England engulfed in civil war, the Armada landed...
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    Invasion (2000), for the PlayStation Star Trek Armada (2000), for Microsoft Windows 98 Star Trek: Armada II (2001) Star Trek: Bridge Commander (2002) Star...
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    French ships. He was later knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588. Martin Frobisher was probably born in 1535 or 1536, the son of...
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    for tapestry designs, one of which, from Lord Howard of Effingham, was for a series of ten tapestries depicting the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 1588...
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  • to Join S&P 500; Pinnacle Financial Partners to Join S&P MidCap 400 and Armada Hoffler Properties to Join S&P SmallCap 600" (PDF). www.spice-indices.com...
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    of armors and weapons, pharmaceutical, silverware, watches, paintings, tapestries and the most comprehensive collection of Stradivarius in the world The...
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