Defeat of The Spanish Armada | Philip James de Loutherbourg | 1796 15th Century Glow of the City (1929)

Glow of the City (1929) by Martin Lewis is a masterful drypoint etching capturing the quiet poetry of urban life in 1920s New York

do you realize what that means…

In the painting

In this dramatic and spectral vision inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Defeat of The Spanish Armada | Philip James de Loutherbourg | 1796 15th Century Glow of the City (1929)Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 8 August 1588. A theatrical interpretation of the Battle of Gravelines, an historical episode that had taken place over 200 years earlier. The artist's painterly response depicts the dramatic nature of the event, together with a vivid use of light and colour to enhance the intensity of the image and the sense of violent struggle. The narrative shows the morning after the English fireship attack on the Armada in Calais