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[Martin Frobisher] – Vintage Wall Art

[Martin Frobisher] — antique engraving
[Martin Frobisher]. 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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[Martin Frobisher]

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Martin Frobisher, the English sea captain and explorer, is the subject here, and this engraving presents him as a figure of the Elizabethan age. Frobisher made three voyages in the 1570s searching for a Northwest Passage to Asia, bringing back dark ore that his backers hoped held gold, though it proved worthless. He later served against the Spanish Armada in 1588. The caption card gives no date, so the print's exact year of production is uncertain, but portrait engravings of Elizabethan navigators were often produced long after their subjects' deaths, drawn from earlier sources.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,237 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118687

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