Title Page to Sir Walter Raleigh, History of the World

Renold Elstrack

published 1652

Title Page to Sir Walter Raleigh, History of the World by Renold Elstrack

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

plate: 30 × 18.4 cm (11 13/16 × 7 1/4 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1951.11.107

About the Artist

Renold Elstrack

Renold Elstracke (c. 1570–after 1625), one of England's earliest native-born engravers, emerged as a pivotal figure in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean art world. Born to Josephe Elstrage, a migrant from "Lukeland" in the province of Liège (modern-day Belgium) who settled in England in 1551, Elstracke likely honed his craft under the tutelage of Crispin van de Passe the elder in Cologne before ar...

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