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[Portrait] Effigies Michaelis Drayton ...

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Michael Drayton (1563-1631) was an English poet who composed the "Poly-Olbion". This was illustrated with one of the most unusual series of county maps ever published. The "Poly-Olbion" was a series of poems, or songs, extolling the beauties of the English and Welsh countryside, and was first published in 1612. This head and shoulders portrait by William Hole shows Drayton wearing a garland of laurel, sometimes said to communicate prophecy and poetry and also a symbol of victory. A verse in Latin appears beneath. The National Portrait Gallery also owns an example - NPG D20358. Trimmed close and laid on archival paper.

region: Portraits and the Map Trade

mapmaker: W.Hole

place and date of publication: London 1618

medium and colour: copperplate, Uncoloured
size in cms: 12 x 19

ref: 34582

Price: £ 300

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