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Simon van de Passe: The true and lively portraiture of the honourable and learned Knight Sr. Walter Ralegh   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Simon van de Passe  (1595–1647)  wikidata:Q14551648
 
Simon van de Passe
Description Dutch artist, engraver, drawer, art dealer, graphic artist and copper engraver
Date of birth/death 1595 Edit this at Wikidata 6 May 1647 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Cologne Edit this at Wikidata Copenhagen Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1628 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Denmark; Utrecht (1612–1615); London (1616–1622); Paris (1623–1623) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q14551648
Title
The true and lively portraiture of the honourable and learned Knight Sr. Walter Ralegh
Printer
Compton Holland  (–1622) wikidata:Q18810641
 
Date of birth/death 1622 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
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 Society 8: 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  (1552–1618) wikidata:Q189144 s:en:Author:Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) q:en:Walter Raleigh
 
Walter Raleigh
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  Edit this at Wikidata 29 October 1618 (in Julian calendarEdit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hayes Barton Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
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
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.
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Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: cropped. Modifications made by Wikipetzi. The original can be found here: John Carter Brown Library.

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Engraved portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh by Simon van de Passe (1617)

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