print
- Museum number
- O,7.283
- Description
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Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, mounted on a horse, with a plan of Cadiz, the Azores and Ireland in the background. c.1599/1600
Engraving
- Production date
- 1599-1602
- Dimensions
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Height: 332 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This portrait can be dated between 1599 when Essex went to Ireland, and his fall in 1600.
This print was issued as a black and white facsimile by the British Museum in 'Reproductions of Prints in the British Museum', New Series Part IX (Specimens of Line-engraving by the Earliest Masters Working in England (About 1545-1695)), Published by the Trustees in 1900, where it was number III and described there as 'Thomas Cockson. Portrait of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.'; see 1900,10.31.6.3 (Shelfmark 245*.b.23).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2001/2 Oct-Feb, London, Tower of London, This Popular Traitor
2012 London, BM, Shakespeare
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- O,7.283
