IMCoS Map Lectures: The Malcolm Young Lecture by Daniel Crouch--Armada Maps

International Map Collectors' Society

IMCoS Map Lectures--The Malcolm Young Lecture, Daniel Crouch, A Protestant Wind or Hot Air? A study of the Astor Armada drawings

Daniel Crouch will offer this year's Malcolm Young Lecture, which will be followed by the conferral of the Helen Wallis Award to a recipient to be revealed at the event. The IMCoS/Helen Wallis Award is awarded annually to an individual who, in the opinion of the Society, has been responsible for contributions of great merit and wide interest to map collectors worldwide and to the advancement of map history more generally. The award is named after Dr Helen Wallis, Map Librarian in the British Museum (later British Library) from 1967 till 1986 and inspirational Chairperson of the Society for many years. 
The Malcolm Young Lecture is the Society’s annual lecture given in honour of Malcolm Young, co-founder of IMCoS. Daniel Crouch will offer a talk titled, "A Protestant Wind or Hot Air? A study of the Astor Armada drawings." In January 2021 a set of ten ink and watercolour drawings were acquired by the National Museum of the Royal Navy. The re-discovered manuscripts are the earliest visual representations of the progress of the Spanish Armada and depict one of the greatest events in British naval history. The chronicle events from the sighting of the fleet at the Lizard on 29 July 1588 to the Battle of Gravelines on 8 August 1588. The drawings had, in 1828, been identified as preparatory sketches for Robert Adams and August Ryther’s engravings, ‘Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam Vera Descriptio’– the first commercially-produced English prints – published in 1590, to accompany Ryther’s description of the battle, A Discourse Concerninge the Spanishe Fleet. The lecture discusses the penmanship, provenance and production of the maps, and raises the possibility that, rather than being preparatory sketches for a printed work, they comprise separately-produced illustrations to accompany a now lost manuscript despatch of the campaign. In either case, both the drawings and the prints are shown to have played a vital role as part of Protestant propaganda and the Tudor spin machine.Daniel Crouch has worked as a bookseller since the age of sixteen; first at Sanders of Oxford on weekends and holidays whilst at school and university, then full-time in 1997 and as General Manager from 1998. Subsequent to this, he left to work as a business developer in the book department at Bonham’s auction house in 1999. In 2002 he was invited to set up a map and atlas department at Bernard Shapero Rare Books in London. Daniel has given numerous lectures on maps and atlases, including talks at the Library of Congress, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Fine Art Museum, Houston. In the summer of 2010, with the support of a group of their customers, Daniel, together with Nick Trimming, started Daniel Crouch Rare Books. Daniel still lives in Oxford with his wife, Jen, and two young daughters.This talk is part of a series of lectures organized and hosted by the International Map Collectors' Society in June 2021. The lectures will be:
9 June, 7PM, the Malcolm Young Lecture, Daniel Crouch: The Spanish Armada Maps
16 June, 2 PM, Peter Geldart, Mapping the British Occupation of Manila 1762–64 (PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME, 2PM, FOR THIS TALK)
23 June, 7 PM, Paula van Gestel, Wall maps published in the Netherlands between c.1550 and 1850
30 June, 7 PM, Wes Brown, Alzate y Ramirez and the mapping of New Spain 
Registered attendees for each event will receive a Zoom link one week before the event. Reminder emails, with the joining link, will be sent two days and one day before the event. If you have any questions about registration or using Zoom, please email Katie Parker at kaparker18th@gmail.com 
Interested in more events like this? Do you like maps and want to connect to other enthusiasts and collectors? Consider joining the International Map Collectors' Society. More information is available here: https://www.imcos.org/membership-levels/

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