In 1739 John Pine (1690-1756) published ‘The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords’, it is considered by many the finest engraved work produced in England. In celebration of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 Robert Adams produced a series of eleven charts, engraved by Augustine Ryther showing the progress of the battle through the English Channel. Lord Howard of Effingham who had been in charge of the English fleet commissioned a Dutchman Hendrik Cornelius Vroom to design a series of tapestries based on the Adams charts. They were woven by Francois Spierinck from Delft who was paid £743 for the work. The noted eighteenth century engraver John Pine reproduced the tapestries and the Adams charts in a series of engravings which he published in 1739. The original ten detailed charts were placed delicately in pairs on five plates in the book, the first of these is offered here. A further technique involves printing the two sea chart plates in a different ink which shows up particularly well in this uncoloured example. This is a very unusual form of printing and is undertaken with remarkable skill. The first chart depicts the Spanish Fleet coming up the Channel opposite the Lizard from where it was first discovered. The second depicts the Spanish Fleet near Fowey in the formation of a half moon with the English Fleet pursuing them. It is decorated with an elaborate border. Almond, Adrian ‘Maps of the Spanish Armada’ IMCoS Journal no. 109 pp. 7-13; Schrire, Jonathan ‘Adams’ & Pine’s Maps of the Spanish Armada’, in Map Collector’s Circle no. 4; Shirley (2004) G.Pin 1b no. 7; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).