Catalogue information

LastDodo number
4585893
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
ROBERTUS DUDLEUS LEYCESTRIAE COMES / DENBIGAE BARO / PR: BELG: GUB:.
Artist
Year
1616
Print run
Signed
Dimensions
13,7 x 12,1
Theme
Details

Oval portrait in rectangular frame of Robert Dudley (1533-1588), 1st Earl of Leicester. As a confidant of Queen Elizabeth I of England, he came to the aid of the insurgents in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands as English governor from 1585-1587. However, his intervention ended in a fiasco. Copper engraving, published in the famous book by Willem Baudartius (1565-1640) 'Les Guerres De Nassau, (...)', Amsterdam, Michel Colin de Thovoyon, 1616.

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