Sir Walter Raleigh, English Elizabethan statesman, soldier, writer and explorer, c. 1552-1618. Sir Walter Raleigh, copied from a rare print by Thomas de Leu, with a vignette of the English Fleet at the capture of Cadiz in 1596. Copperplate engraving from Samuel Woodburn’s Gallery of Rare Portraits Consisting of Original Plates, George Jones, 102 St Martin’s Lane, London, 1816.

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