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Summary
Simon van de Passe: The true and lively portraiture of the honourable and learned Knight Sr. Walter Ralegh
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Artist
Simon van de Passe
(1595–1647)
Description
Dutch artist, engraver, drawer, art dealer, graphic artist and copper engraver
Date of birth/death
1595
6 May 1647
Location of birth/death
Cologne
Copenhagen
Work period
1628
Work location
Paris (1623–1623); London (1616–1622); Utrecht (1612–1615); Denmark
Authority file
: Q14551648
VIAF: 95750091
ISNI: 0000000081309245
ULAN: 500011344
LCCN: n85114975
Oxford Dict.: 21504
WorldCat
artist QS:P170,Q14551648
Title
The true and lively portraiture of the honourable and learned Knight Sr. Walter Ralegh
Printer
Compton Holland
(–1622)
Date of birth/death
1622
Authority file
: Q18810641
Oxford Dict.: 64982
creator QS:P170,Q18810641
Genre
portrait
Description
English: The plate was used as the frontispiece to the third edition of Raleigh's History of the World in 1617, but was also separately published.
It is improbable that this plate should have been destined to Ralegh's History of the World in 1614, for Simon Passe did not publish any engraving in London before 1613, and Ralegh's book seems to have been on the stocks since 1611. […] The sudden appearance of the engraved portrait in the third edition's of Ralegh book in 1617 may possibly have been due to a decision to omit, as a precaution, Ralegh's portrait from the forthcoming Book of Heroes. The plate being then in Compton Holland's hands was possibly disposed of to Ralegh's publisher, if not to Ralegh himself, the original inscription erased and a new and non-commital title substituted. […] At the date when Simon Passe first came to London, Ralegh had already spent some years of confinement in the Tower of London. His appearance had altered since the majestic presentment of 1602, and the portrait engraved by Passe is evidently a truthful representation, based on some drawing or painting taken from the life. […] Ralegh is still figured as a commander, with a truncheon in his hand, with shoulder-plates of armour showing the leather lining. […] Under his right hand is a globe, on which is a ship at sea, and the name Guiana. […] In the spandrels of the frame are suitable grotesque figures, one holding a map on which can be read Cadiz and Hisp. […] Below the portrait, over an erased inscription, are a shield with the armorial quarterings of Ralegh […] No impression of the plate in its original state can be traced, although it is stated to have a different motto, FORTUNAM EX ALIIS, and the inscription evidently consisted of six lines. The engraved portrait as issued was the foundation of all engraved portraits, published in the seventeenth century, engraved by Robert Vaughan and other various publishers.
— Lionel Cust, in: Cust, Lionel (1919). "The Portraits of Sir Walter Ralegh". The Volume of the Walpole Society8: 9-10.
This image soon permeated popular culture and became the iconic representation of Ralegh most often available during the 17th century to the book-buying and print-buying public (e.g., several anonymous copies exist, and Passe's design was re-engraved by Robert Vaughan and Frederick Hendrik van Hove in the latter half of the century).
— Deborah Taylor-Pearce, in: Taylor-Pearce, Deborah (2019). Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618). She-philosopher.com website.
Depicted people
Walter Raleigh
(1554–1618)
Alternative names
Sir Walter Raleigh; Sir Walter Ralegh; Walter Ralegh; Walter, Sir Raleigh
Description
British explorer, poet, writer, knight, politician and spy
Date of birth/death
circa
29 October 1618 (in Julian calendar)
Location of birth/death
Hayes Barton
London
Authority file
: Q189144
VIAF: 107533796
ISNI: 0000000113957336
ULAN: 500259314
LCCN: n79060999
NLA: 35440109
WorldCat
creator QS:P170,Q189144
Date
1617
date QS:P571,+1617-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
height: 17.2 cm (6.7 in); width: 10.8 cm (4.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,17.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,10.8U174728
Collection
John Carter Brown Library
Location
Providence , United States of America
Coordinates
41° 49′ 34.2″ N, 71° 24′ 11.7″ W
Established
1846
Website
jcblibrary.org
Authority file
: Q6225372
VIAF: 157613561
ISNI: 0000000122992379
ULAN: 500310246
LCCN: n79125351
NLA: 35022908
WorldCat
institution QS:P195,Q6225372
Current location
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number
0680
Place of creation
London
Object history
1846: acquired by John Carter Brown Library
Inscriptions
Name of sitter recto on the frame:
VERA EFFIGIES CLARISSmi VIRI DOMni GUALTHERI RALEGH EQV: AUR. etc
[Vera effigies clarissimi viri domini Gualtheri Ralegh eques aratus etc.] [The true portrait of most famous man Sir Walter Ralegh, knight bachelor etc.]
Artist's initials recto bottom left:
Sim: Paß :sculp:
[Simon Passaeus sculpsit] [Image engraved by Simon van de Passe]
Initials recto bottom right:
Comp: Holland exc.
[Compton Holland excudit] [Published by Compton Holland]
Motto recto bottom center:
AMORE ET VIRTVTE
[Love and Power]
Coat of arms recto bottom center
Caption recto bottom:
The true and lively portraiture of the honourable and learned Knight Sr. Walter Ralegh
Notes
This is the second state of the plate, with the motto on the arms changed to AMORE ET VIRTVTE. In the first state, the motto was DATA FATA SEQVUTUS [Following my Destiny], as can be seen in this British Museum print.
This John Carter Brown Library print is described as being used as the frontispiece to an edition of Raleigh's Discovery of Guiana, but it can't be from the original 1596 edition.
References
John Carter Brown Library
British Museum
Cust, Lionel (1919). "The Portraits of Sir Walter Ralegh". The Volume of the Walpole Society8: 9-10.
Taylor-Pearce, Deborah (2019). Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618). She-philosopher.com website.
Source/Photographer
Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
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Engraved portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh by Simon van de Passe (1617)
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