Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe English pointer Original: blueprint paper

Original: blueprint paper

c1930-c1904

One putto holds a scroll bearing the legend: 'Ecce Philosophorum Princeps'

Plate 17 from The zoological miscellany

Examination of a bankrupt before his creditors in the Court of King's Bench

Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe English pointer Original: blueprint paperSir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe, 1588 (c1900). The famous game of bowls supposedly played by Sir Francis Drake whilst awaiting the arrival of the Spanish Armada. The story, probably apocryphal, goes that when Drake was informed that the Armada had been sighted, rather than putting to sea immediately, he decided that he had time to 'finish the game and beat the Spaniards too'. From Peeps into the Past by Trelleek, published c1900.