£600 - £800
GEORGE VERTUE, 1684 - 1756, AN ENGRAVING DEPICTING A HALF LENGTH PORTRAIT OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
Hand resting on a richly ornamented helmet and holding a baton, a globe at top left and coat of arms at right.
(sight 32cm x 40.5cm, frame 52cm x 60.5cm)
N.B. George Vertue was a British engraver and historian who purchased the original copper pressed engraving from descendants of the Dutch engraver, Jodocus Hondius, 1563 - 1612, George Vertue then re-worked the original
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