Fragment of a Ship Flag

Spain, 1570 - 1630

Fragment of a Ship Flag

Object data

linen

height 208 cm × width 330 cm

Inscriptions

inscription, on the scroll: PLVS VLT[RA]

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889

Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-5

Entry

Fragment of a ship flag, upper right-hand corner, painted on one side. In the middle is a crowned coat of arms (probably of Leon and Castille) with the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece on a ragged red cross. To the fly is a Corinthian pillar surrounded by a scroll with the inscription.

This flag probably bears the emblems of the Albert VII, Archduke of Austria and Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia of the Southern Netherlands (r. 1598-1621).

Literature

M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 109

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Ship Flag, Spain, 1570 - 1630', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245325

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