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by Sir Francis Drake, the elder - Thomas De

$2,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A very early engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake. A clean impression of the second state of this famous portrait of Sir Francis Drake at age forty-three, shortly after he returned from circumnavigating the globe, the basis for most of the later images of him. The image is taken from a portrait purportedly painted from life by Jean Rabel the Elder and is said to be a credible likeness of the famed navigator. The legend beneath the portrait indicates the dates of Drake's

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