Volume 1, page 21. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Thomas Cavendish, navigator
Description:
Title from contemporary notes below image., Date supplied by cataloger., With a partly legible pencil annotation in upper right corner: Ao. 1594 [...?]., Laid down on an ink line mount., and Mounted on page 21 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Plate [128] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallions of Gilbert, Cavendish, Frobisher, Hawkins, Drake, Cumberland, Raleigh and Effingham in a decorative plaque; above, female allegorical figure seated in rocks with lighning bolts in hand, ships surrounding."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [128] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery
Subject (Name):
Gilbert, Humphrey, Sir, 1539?-1583,, Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592,, Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535-1594,, Hawkins, John, Sir, 1532-1595,, Drake, Francis, 1540?-1596,, Cumberland, George Clifford, Earl of, 1558-1605,, Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618,, and Nottingham, Charles Howard, Earl of, approximately 1536-1624,
