The French Admiral, 1702, 1702 print The French Admiral. Cartoon on the burning of the French and Spanish ships by the Dutch and English after the victory in the sea battle in the bay of Vigo, October 23, 1702. Phaëthon falls into the sea with the solar car from heaven. In the caption two verses in French and Dutch. Part of a group of individual cartoons on Louis XIV during the Spanish Succession War, ca. 1701-1713. Northern Netherlands paper etching political caricatures and satires. fall of Phaethon; he is struck by a thunderbolt of Jupiter. battle (+ naval force)

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