The age of Drake was indeed the most exciting period of English history, whose leading theme was the struggle against the colossal Spanish empire. Travel, exploration, and the beginnings of English overseas settlement, in Virginia, also make this era a decisive one in world history.
The Actors and their Stage
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Web PageSir Francis Drake The Crispin de Passe Portrait of Drake. From Effigies Regum ac Principum... 1598.- Date: 1598
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Web PageSir Francis Drake Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth. Drake's Portrait from The World Encompassed, 1628. -
Web PageQueen Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth I from The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth... , 1630- Date: 1630
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Web PagePortrait of King Philip II of Spain The Crispin de Passe Portrait of King Philip II of Spain. From Effigies Regum ac Principum, 1598.- Date: 1598
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Web PageRobert Devereaux, Earl of Essex The Portrait of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, favorite of Queen Elizabeth, engraved by Willem de Passe. From Henry Holland's Heroologia Anglica, 1620.- Date: 1620
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Web PagePortrait of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer of England Portrait of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer of England, Contemporary oil painting, second half of the sixteenth century.- Date: 1533/1603
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Web PageThe Portrait of John Hawkins, from Henry Holland's Heroologia Anglica, 1620. Plates engraved by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe. Cf. A.M. Hind. Engraving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 1952-64, v. 2, p. 145.- Date: 1620
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Web PageEngraved portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham, from Holland's Heroologia Anglica, 1620. Plates engraved by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe. Cf. A.M. Hind. Engraving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 1952-64, v. 2, p. 145- Date: 1620
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Web PagePictoral narratives of English and Spanish fleets from Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam..., 1590. Intended to accompany: Ubaldini, Petruccio. A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete invadinge Englande in the yeare 1588.- Date: 1590
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Web PageTitle page of Part VIII of De Bry's Grand Voyages. The title page, with a new engr. title on a slip mounted over the original text, is repeated preceding the plates.- Date: 1596
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Web PageFrom Heroologia Anglica, 1620. Plates engraved by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe. Cf. A.M. Hind. Engraving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 1952-64, v. 2, p. 145.- Date: 1620
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Web PageFrom Part VIII of De Bry's Grand Voyages, 1599. - page 301 The history of Drake's first voyage is translated from the account by Nuno da Silva; the second is based upon an account of Walter Bigges; The expedition of the Dutch in 1599…- Date: 1599
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Web PageFrom Part VIII of De Bry's Grand Voyages, 1599. - page 302 The history of Drake's first voyage is translated from the account by Nuno da Silva; the second is based upon an account of Walter Bigges; The expedition of the Dutch in 1599…- Date: 1599
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Web PageEngraved views of Santiago (S. Iacob) and Santo Domingo by Boazio, 1588 Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage. Latin- Date: 1588
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Web PageCaca Fogo A narrative of the four earliest circumnavigations of the world, forming part 6 of the Hulsius series of voyages; the present copy is the third Hulsius edition.--H. P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake;…- Date: 1626
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Web PageArmada Medal Medal of Silver, commemorating the defeat of the Invincible Armada. 51 mm. diameter. In a cloth case.- Date: 1588