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Museum number: O,7.283
Description: 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
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Production date: 1599-1602
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Dimensions: Height: 332 millimetres; Width: 263 millimetres
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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).
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Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2001/2 Oct-Feb, London, Tower of London, This Popular Traitor 2012 London, BM, Shakespeare
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Acquisition date: 1799
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: O,7.283

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