Maps of the Spanish Armada (28 and 31 July 1588)

Two maps (IX-X) with the Spanish and English fleets in the Channel near the Strait of Dover. On the left map a wild man sits on a rock holding two burning torches in his hands. Next to him a putto on a fish with a coat of arms and thunderbolt in hand. On the other side smoking urns. On the right map Fame sits on a rock. She blows on a trumpet and holds the coat of arms of Charles Howard, the Lord High Admiral and commander-in-chief of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada. The maps are set within an ornamental frame. At the top of the frame a coin with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, flanked by four putti. The coin to the left of it was minted in Zeeland and shows the Spanish ships in a storm with a sun breaking through. On the coin to the right four kneeling and praying persons. Hanging from the coat of arms, below the portrait of Elizabeth, a chain with which the English queen keeps Pope Sixtus V, the Spanish King Philip II and Alessandro Farnese in check.