Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Sir Francis Drake, with English verse]

Accession number: 
10914
Record number: 
10914-2
JCB call number: 
D628 D751w
Image title: 
[Sir Francis Drake, with English verse]
Creator 1: 
Robert Vaughan
Creator 1 dates: 
ca. 1600-ca. 1663
Creator 1 role: 
sculp.
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[Nicholas Bourne]
Image date: 
[1628]
Image function: 
frontispiece
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
14.4 cm.
Image dimension width: 
12.8 cm.
Page dimension height: 
18.1 cm.
Page dimension width: 
14 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
Portrait of Sir Francis Drake leaning on a globe and holding a staff. Includes navigational instruments such as compass, cross-staff, and armillary sphere, as well as the Drake coat of arms.
Source creator: 
Drake, Francis, Sir, d. 1637
Source Title: 
The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios formerly imprinted ...
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for Nicholas Bourne and are to be sold at his shop at the Royall Exchange
Source date: 
1628
Time Period: 
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1916.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary: 
Subject Area: 
Portraits
Subject headings: 
Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540-1596--Portraits