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Francis Drake
| Reference: | S52059 |
| Author | William Marshall Craig |
| Year: | 1648 |
| Measures: | 110 x 130 mm |
€225.00
- New
| Reference: | S52059 |
| Author | William Marshall Craig |
| Year: | 1648 |
| Measures: | 110 x 130 mm |
€225.00
Description
Portrait of Sir Francis Drake, bust-length, slightly turned to the left and looking to the front, with a small beard, in an embroidered doublet with a lace collar, a sash over his shoulder and his right hand resting on a globe with a pair of compasses; illustration to Fuller's "The Holy State" (1648).
Engraving and etching, 1648, lettered below image "Sr Francis Drake one of the first of those wch in his Sea voyages put a Girdle about the World. He Died upon the Seas. Anno Dm 1595. W.M. sculp:".
After Crispijn de Passe the Elder.
Bibliografia
O'Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (16); Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (XVI.184ad).
William Marshall Craig ( - 1827)
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William Marshall Craig (died 1827) was an English painter who exhibited at times at the Royal Academy, from 1788 until 1827. Craig first lived at Manchester, but settled in London about 1791. He was painter in water-colours to the Queen, and miniature painter to the Duke and Duchess of York. He also excelled as a draughtsman on wood, and as a book illustrator, and he published in 1821 'Lectures on Drawing, Painting, and Engraving.' He is said to have been a nephew of Thomson, the poet. 'The Wounded Soldier' by him is in the Water-Colour Gallery at the South Kensington Museum.
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William Marshall Craig ( - 1827)
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William Marshall Craig (died 1827) was an English painter who exhibited at times at the Royal Academy, from 1788 until 1827. Craig first lived at Manchester, but settled in London about 1791. He was painter in water-colours to the Queen, and miniature painter to the Duke and Duchess of York. He also excelled as a draughtsman on wood, and as a book illustrator, and he published in 1821 'Lectures on Drawing, Painting, and Engraving.' He is said to have been a nephew of Thomson, the poet. 'The Wounded Soldier' by him is in the Water-Colour Gallery at the South Kensington Museum.
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