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A black & white print, from a disbound book The Queen's Empire c1897 with another print on the reverse.

Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 11.5" x 9" or 29.5cm x 23cm, including text and border.

Actual picture size approx 8.75" x 6.25" or 22cm x 16cm

This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.

All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.

While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.

Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)

PLYMOUTH HOE.

Here we have a view of Plymouth Hoe, the scene of the famous game of bowls which Raleigh, Drake, Hawkins, and other great seamen were playing when the news of the coming of the Spanish Armada arrived. "Let us finish the game first," said sturdy Admiral Drake, " and beat the Dons afterwards," and he carried out the programme to the letter. On the right of the picture stretch the waters of Plymouth Sound; in the centre rises the old Eddystone Lighthouse, brought from its storm-beaten rock in the Channel, and reconstructed. An old Martello tower overlooks the Cattewater or mercantile anchorage; on the left is the new Marine Biological Laboratory, and at the back of it the ancient citadel, now used as a barrack, The two monuments commemorate respectively the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the fame of that great seaman and stout man of Devon, Admiral Sir Francis Drake.