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[Sir Francis Drake, 1540?-1596, half-length portrait, facing left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Sir Francis Drake, 1540?-1596, half-length portrait, facing left] — antique engraving
[Sir Francis Drake, 1540?-1596, half-length 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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This rare antique engraving captures [Sir Francis Drake, 1540?-1596, half-length portrait, facing left] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Sir Francis Drake, 1540?-1596, half-length portrait, facing left]

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Sir Francis Drake, the Elizabethan sea captain, appears here in a half-length view turned to the left, a pose that engravers of his era often used to give a portrait a sense of purpose and movement. Drake (1540?-1596) led the second circumnavigation of the globe and harassed Spanish shipping, becoming one of the most celebrated figures of England's late sixteenth-century naval rise. This engraving was made in the early 1880s, long after his death, so it reflects how Victorian printmakers imagined the explorer rather than a likeness drawn from life. Its value lies in showing how later generations shaped Drake into a national hero.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[between 1882 and 1883]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,262 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127489

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