Merian (Matthaus)

Frankfurt, , 1677. two panoramic prospects of the daring attacks by the Dutch fleet under the command of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter over several days in June, 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the upper view of raid on Rochester and Chatham on the River Medway, and the lower one showing the looting and pillaging of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey. It was issued in Merian’s ‘Theatrum Europaeum’, having originally been engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe for Nicolaes Visscher, after a contemporary depiction by Willem Schellink.. 300 by 370mm (11¾ by 14½ inches).