Sir Francis Drake. Line engraving by W. Marshall, 1642.

1642

1 print : engraving

Sr Francis Drake one of the first of those w.ch in his sea voyages put a girdle about the world. He died upon the seas. Anno D(omi)ni 1595. W.M. sculp.

A.M Hind, Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, part III (by M. Corbett and M. Norton), Cambridge 1964, p. 137, no. 114

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 848.7

Wellcome Collection 2586i