Sir Robert Gordon of Straloch, 1580-1661. Scottish cartographer, noted as a poet, mathematician, antiquary, and geographer, and for his collection of music for the lute. In broad lace collar over doublet. From an original painting in the College of Aberdeen. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Trotter from John Smith’s Iconographia Scotica, or portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, London, 1798.

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