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[Sir John Hawkins, 1532-1595, bust portrait, facing left] – Historic Photograph Print

[Sir John Hawkins, 1532-1595, bust portrait, facing left] — antique engraving
[Sir John Hawkins, 1532-1595, bust portrait, facing left]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Sir John Hawkins, 1532-1595, bust portrait, facing left]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Sir John Hawkins, 1532-1595, bust portrait, facing left]

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Shown in a bust-length profile turned to the left, this engraving presents Sir John Hawkins, the Elizabethan naval commander who died in 1595. Hawkins was a central figure in English maritime expansion, a pioneer of the transatlantic slave trade in the 1560s, and later Treasurer of the Navy, where he helped prepare the fleet for the Spanish Armada in 1588. The print was made between 1882 and 1883, so it is a later rendering of a sixteenth-century subject, and it is worth comparing with older likenesses to see how the image was reshaped for a Victorian audience.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[between 1882 and 1883]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,124 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127488

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