Third battle between the WIC fleet under Willem Cornelisz. Loos with the Portuguese fleet under Count de la Torre off the coast of Paraiba, 14 January 1640. In the air a winged banderole with the title and two smoked horns. In the caption the declaration of the letters A-E and the numbers 1-7 in Latin. Proof of plate [no. 44] in a series of 55 depictions of the journey to and stay in Brazil of Count Johan Maurits van Nassau in the years 1636-1644, Third battle with the Portuguese fleet near Paraiba, 1640., print maker: Salomon Savery, Frans Jansz Post, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1645

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