Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Sr. Francis Drake.
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Accession number:
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34917
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Record number:
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34917-3
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JCB call number:
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D741 A512t
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Image title:
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Sr. Francis Drake.
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Place image published:
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[London]
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Image publisher:
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[J. Fuller]
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Image date:
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[1741]
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Image function:
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plate; following p. 176
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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15.9 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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8.8 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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16.8 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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10.3 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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English
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Description:
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Portrait of Sir Francis Drake. Below the portrait are olive and laurel (?) branches, a globe, an anchor, a cannon, chain shot, a flag, a sextant, and roll of paper or parchment.
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Source Title:
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The American traveller; being a new historical collection carefully compiled from original memoirs in several languages, ... containing a compleat account of that part of the world, now called the West Indies, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time. ...
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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J. Fuller at the Dove in Creed-Lane
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Source date:
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M.DCC.XLI. [1741]
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notes:
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Chain shot was used to tear the rigging and sails of an enemy ship so that it could not manoeuver.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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geographic area:
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North America
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Portraits
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Subject headings:
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Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596--Portraits
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