domingo, 3 de marzo de 2013

La Guaya 1808





De La Guayra, on the Spanish Main. 
G.T. Inv.t. Richards sc.
Published 31st Jan.y, 1808 by Joyce Gold, 103 Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, London.
Aquatint. 130 x 220mm. 
Caracas. Published in the 'Naval Chronicle'. 

La Guayra 1860



W.S. Andrews, del. T.G.Dutton, lith.
Day & Son, Lith.rs to the Queen. [London, c.1860.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 270 x 370mm. 10½ x 14½". 
A prospect of La Guaira, Venezuela. From 'Andrews's Illustrations of the West Indies'. The Battle of La Guaira between the English and Spanish was fought here in 1743, partof the large conflict finally resolved at Aix-le Chapelle in 1748.