Robert Holmes Setting the Dutch Fleet on Fire at Terschelling
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Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
During the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the English Rear Admiral Robert Holmes raided the Vlie estuary in August 1666, setting fire to a large Dutch merchant fleet of 150 ships moored between the islands of Vlieland and Terschelling. As part of the same attack – which came to be known as Holmes’ Bonfire – he sacked and burnt down the village of West-Terschelling, killing mostly women and children.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-T-1905-20
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
