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Photo, Print, Drawing Franciscus Draeck nobilissimus eques Angliae an[n]o aet[atis] sue 43

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Title

  • Franciscus Draeck nobilissimus eques Angliae an[n]o aet[atis] sue 43

Summary

  • Drake is depicted standing, his right hand on a helmet, his left holding a baton. Through a window above to the left a landscape is visible; before the window hangs a terrestrial globe or two-hemisphere disc map hanging by an ornamented finial.

Names

  • Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
  • Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [London? : Jodocus Hondius?, ca. 1583]

Headings

  • -  Drake, Francis,--approximately 1540-1596
  • -  Admirals--Great Britain--Biography--Early works to 1800
  • -  Explorers--Great Britain--Biography--Early works to 1800
  • -  Great Britain--History, Naval--Tudors, 1485-1603--Biography
  • -  Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603--Biography

Notes

  • -  Attributed to Hondius by George Vertue, who obtained the original plate and produced a 2nd state in the 18th century. Cf. Hind.
  • -  First state.
  • -  Measurement indicates sheet size of trimmed LC copy retaining only part of the plate mark.
  • -  The finest contemporary portrait of Drake. It is unsigned, but was attributed to Hondius by George Vertue in the 18th century, and Hind follows this attribution, though suggesting that it may possibly be the work of Remigius Hogenberg. It is certainly different in style and posture from other engravings of Drake signed by Hondius. It apparently was never circulated in Drake's time, as only two contemporary impressions are known (British Museum, Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam), both of them in unfinished state. Vertue obtained the original copper plate from Drake's descendants, and completed it, largely by adding shading in the background. The present impression is of the second state.
  • -  Hind, A.M. Engraving in England, I, p. 159 (no. 3) and plate 92
  • -  LC copy: Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus.
  • -  drakenew

Medium

  • 1 print : engraving ; 42 x 32 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DA86.22.D7 H66 1583

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 84233428

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Hondius, Jodocus, and Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Franciscus Draeck nobilissimus eques Angliae anno aetatis sue 43. Great Britain, 1583. [London?: Jodocus Hondius?] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/84233428/.

APA citation style:

Hondius, J. & Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. (1583) Franciscus Draeck nobilissimus eques Angliae anno aetatis sue 43. Great Britain, 1583. [London?: Jodocus Hondius?] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/84233428/.

MLA citation style:

Hondius, Jodocus, and Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Franciscus Draeck nobilissimus eques Angliae anno aetatis sue 43. [London?: Jodocus Hondius?] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/84233428/>.