George Gascoigne, English poet, soldier and courtier of the Elizabethan era, 1534-1577. In ruff collar and suit of armour, with books on a shelf. Tam Marti Quam Mercurio. From the woodcut frontispiece to his Steele Glas and Complaynte of Phylomene, 1576. 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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