The view of St. Augustine is the earliest engraving of any locality in the United States. The English fleet lies at anchor, the infantry troops having disembarked to attack the Spanish settlement on May 28 and 29, 1856.

Drake then sailed to Roanoke Island, off the Virginia coast, to evacuate the survivors of the failed English colony. The plan also includes an illustration of a dolphin that Boazio very likely copied from the drawings of English America by John White, a member of the 1585 Raleigh settlement of Virginia. The artist John White and the scientist Thomas Harriot were part of a scientific expedition sent to gather information about the New World for the English. They visited Indian villages and mapped the area as far north as the Chesapeake Bay.

Italian artist Baptista Boazio created these engravings to accompany A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, published in London by Biggs and Croftes in 1588-1589.

Item sold is a digital photographic reproduction.

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