Allegory of the downfall of the Spanish Armada and the discovery of the gunpowder treason, 1588-1605, 1588. Deo trin-uni Britanniae bis ultori (...), To God, In memory of his double deliverance from ye invincible Navie and ye unmatcheable powder Treason 1605. (title on object), Political allegory on the downfall of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the discovery of the gunpowder treason in 1605. On the left the Spanish fleet at sea, in the middle a table with a canopy on which the devil, Philip II, the Pope and Jesuit and other Roman clergy sit, right Guy Fawkes with a lantern near the basement


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