The reverse with paper label and in the artist's hand. 'No 1 The picture represents the sinking of a large Galleon of the Portuguese division of the Armada by an English Ship, which is rounding under her stern, and delivering a raking broadside while the Galleon rolls disabled before the wind. In another part the Spanish Ship is on fire, and the crew escaping over the bows are being saved by boats from an English Ship near. Seen distantly below the smoke of the burning Galleon, is an English Ship, The Vanguard-Sir William Winter, engaging two Spanish Ships'
Oswald W Brierly, Marine Painter to the Queen, 38 Ampthill Square, London NW