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Miniature engraved 1624 portrait of navigator John Davis (1550-1605)

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Artist
Unidentified engraver  
 
Description Unidentified, Unspecified, Unattributed, Not provided, Not mentioned, UnknownUnknown or Anonymous 17th-century engraver.
Publisher
Henry Fetherston
Description
Miniature engraved portrait of navigator John Davis (c. 1550-1605), detail from the title page of Samuel Purchas's Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes (1624).
Depicted people
John Davis  (1550–1605) wikidata:Q311652
 
John Davis
Alternative names
John Davys
Description English-British explorer and seafarer
Date of birth/death October 1550 Edit this at Wikidata 27 December 1605 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Sandridge Edit this at Wikidata Bintan Island Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q311652
Date 1624
date QS:P571,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
Dimensions height: 2 cm (0.7 in); width: 2.1 cm (0.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,2.0U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,2.1U174728
Place of creation London
Inscriptions

Name of sitter:

Cap: Ioannes Dauis discou: of N.S·E
It is not clear what N.S·E stands for exactly. Maybe N.S. stands for Northern Seas, as the phrase Discoverie of the Northern Seas is used by Purchas in a passage of his book that is about John Davis. As for the E, it is tempting to interpret it as an abbreviation of Eques (knight), a word which occurs on many other miniature portraits on the same title page, but Davis was never knighted.
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