Let armes and arts thy prayses speake who wast their patron worthy [graphic].
1631
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Title
Let armes and arts thy prayses speake who wast their patron worthy [graphic].
Created/published
[London] : Io: Payne sculp, [c.1631]
Description
1 print ; 14 x 20 cm
Associated name
Payne, John, -1647?, printmaker.
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Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271955 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "Commemorating the London merchant Nicholas Leate (1565-1631) this rare small format print was produced c.1631 by the engraver John Payne (d.c.1648), perhaps after the portrait of Leate that was donated by his sons to the Ironmongers' Company (see: ODNB). Trading from c.1590, Leate was an investor in numerous pioneering mercantile ventures, including the Merchant Adventurers, Eastland Company and the North-West Passage Company. He was a founding member of the East India Company, however it is for his exertions within the Levant Company that he is remembered in particular. The engraved verses at the foot of the print reference his involvement in decorating the Royal Exchange: "London may boast thy prayse and magnifie / Thy name; whose care her ruynes did repare: / And in Exchange; of fowle deformitie; / Hath deckt and gracd her with bewties rare: / The fame wherof resoundeth farr and neare. / Then honour him, who thus hath honourd thee / And love his name, in all posteritie." Hind III.15.22." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9378, 2019-12-16, Catalogue 29, item 2.