Price: $250.00
SKU: 103703
ARTIST: Richard Gaywood
MEDIUM: Engraving,
DATE: 1654.
EDITION SIZE: Oval Image size 6 1/8 x 4 5/8"
DESCRIPTION: William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), the Scottish poet, historian, and intellectual associated with the early seventeenth-century literary circle of Scotland. The print was engraved in 1654 by the English printmaker Richard Gaywood, one of the more active portrait engravers working in London during the mid-seventeenth century.<BR><BR> Drummond, laird of Hawthornden near Edinburgh, was among the most distinguished literary figures in Scotland in the early Stuart period. Educated at the University of Edinburgh and later at University of Bourges in France, he developed a refined poetic style deeply influenced by Italian Renaissance models, particularly the sonnets of Francesco Petrarca. His writings include sonnets, madrigals, and reflective prose works, as well as historical and political commentary, and he maintained intellectual connections with leading figures of the period, including the English dramatist Ben Jonson, whose celebrated visit to Hawthornden in 1618–1619 was later recorded in Drummond’s notes.<BR><BR> Gaywood’s engraving presents Drummond in a dignified bust-length portrait, typically enclosed within an oval frame, a format common to seventeenth-century portrait prints intended for circulation among readers and collectors. The engraver employs delicate linear modeling and controlled cross-hatching to render the sitter’s features and costume with clarity and restraint, demonstrating the technical precision characteristic of Gaywood’s work. Such engraved portraits often served as frontispieces to published editions of literary works or biographical collections, functioning both as commemorative images and as visual affirmations of the author’s intellectual authority.
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CONDITION: Good condition.
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