Sir Francis Drake. Line engraving by T. de Leu after J. Rabel.

A Paris : Thomas de Leu sculpsit et excudit, [between 1583 and 1589]

1 print : engraving

Franciscus Draeck nobilissimus eques Angliae an.o aet. sue. 43. Habes, lector candide, fortiss. ac inuictiss. Ducis Draeck ad viuum jmaginem qui toto terrarum orbe, duorum annorum, et mensium decem spatio, Zephiris fauentibus circumducto, Angliam sedes proprias, 4. Cal. Octobr, anno a partu Virginis 1580 reuisit cum antea portu soluisset Id. Decemb: anni. 1577. Le vray portraict du Cappitaine Draeck lequel a circuit toute la terre en trois années moins deux mois et 17 iours. Il partit du royaulme d'Angleterre le 13. de Decembre 1577 et fist son retour audict royaulme le 26 iour de Sept: 1580. Ad amplissimum et illust: virum D.D. Edoardum Staffart apud Henricum 3. Christ: Franc: Regem legatum D. S. obseruantiss. Io: Rabel pinxit. Thomas de Leu sculpsit et excudit. A Paris. The same Latin lettering describing Drake's circumnavigation appears on another engraving, attributed to Jodocus Hondius, which Rabel and de Leu may have copied (Strong, loc. cit.)

[Robert-Dumesnil's state II of 2, lacking parentheses around "Lector candide"].

Roy Strong, Tudor & Jacobean portraits, London: H.M.S.O., 1969, vol. 1, pp. 70-71

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 848.1

A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil, Le peintre-graveur français, vol. 10, Paris 1868, pp. 100-101, no. 354

William Schupbach, 'A shield for espionage: Thomas de Leu's portrait of Sir Francis Drake', Wellcome Library blog, 21 November 2016 https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210312210929/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2016/11/a-shield-for-espionage-thomas-de-leus-portrait-of-sir-francis-drake/

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