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Payne, John, The true portraicture of His Ma[jes]ties. royall ship the Soveraigne of the Seas built in the yeare 1637, S.a. [ca. 1637/38]. [London]. Peter Pett.

Payne, John

The true portraicture of His Ma[jes]ties. royall ship the Soveraigne of the Seas built in the yeare 1637, S.a. [ca. 1637/38]. [London]. Peter Pett.
Striking English engraving of the 17th century warship the “Sovereign of the Seas”, the largest English print of the first half of the century

Huge and truly magnificent English engraving of the first half of the 17th century, “by far the largest English engraving to survive from the first half of the century (five other impressions are known)” (British Museum comment of the curator).
$ 34,000.00
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Large engraving (665 x 910 mm), printed from two plates on two sheets, assembled to make a single print. With title in English at top and a slightly different Latin title across the foot (both outside the image), and two decorated cartouches with laudatory verses in the upper corners.
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