Imperial Fleet Firing a Cannon Near Haiyang Island (Kaiyōtō fukin teikoku gunkan happō no zu)

Willem van de Velde II was one of the leading 17th-century Dutch marine painters. Trained by his father, Willem van de Velde I, with whom he later worked, he continued his studies ...

On 7 October 1571, 132,000 men on 490 ships faced each other on two sides of the Gulf of Patras, near Lepanto, in modern-day Greece. It was the last major battle in history fought ...

Character: description on folk. 3b - 4b, miniature on folk. 4a, 147 x 164 mm. In the red gable there is a green lawn, on it stands on the right two shirts and on the left there is ...

Character: description, miniature in the middle of the leaf, 111 x 150 mm. Original: In the shield a man holding a sickle in his right hand and three barley cobs in his left. On th...