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Object Type
Museum number: 2AA+,a.71.75
Title: Object: Franciscus Draeck nobilissimus eques Angliae...
Description: Portrait of navigator Francis Drake aged 43, bust-length slightly turned to the left, with shield decorated with scene representing a naval battle; in oval border. c.1583 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Thomas de Leu; After: Jean Rabel (the elder); Published by: Thomas de Leu
School/style
Production date: 1583 (c.)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 174 millimetres; Width: 109 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Weak impression from a worn-out plate. Following Grivel (2009), this would appear to be the second state, with the parentheses at the beginning of the inscription removed (compare with an impression from the first state in the BM, 1927,1008.79). Grivel`s catalogue is based on the collection of prints by father and son Rabel in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Bibliographic references: Robert-Dumesnil 1835-71 / Le Peintre-Graveur Français (X.100.354.II); Grivel 2009 / Au sieur Rabel, parangon de la pourtraicture - nouvelles recherches sur les peintres-graveurs français de la fin du XVIe siècle: l'exemple de Jean Rabel (67)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2AA+,a.71.75

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