Portuguese Nautical Chart | Fernão Vaz Dourado | 1571 16th Century The Four Days' Battle

The Four Days' Battle

There is a red flag fluttering on the hulk with a weather vane on top of the flagpole pointing towards the left

while the rest of the hull and surrounding water is darkened by the lashing rain

An extraordinary map of monumental proportions

The guards fired their guns to quell rising panic

Portuguese Nautical Chart | Fernão Vaz Dourado | 1571 16th Century The Four Days' BattleNautical chart of Portuguese cartographer Ferno Vaz Dourado (c. 1520 c. 1580), part of a nautical atlas drawn in 1571 and now kept in the Portuguese National Archives of Torre do Tombo (ANTT), Lisbon. This chart depicts the known West African coast. Print: A premium quality heavyweight (200gsm) fine art print material with a smooth, clean finish. This museum quality paper is extremely consistent and works perfectly with large, full colour graphics or