Article: Herrick, Hollar, and the Tradescants: piecing together a seventeenth-century triptych.(Critical Essay)

WERE THERE NO OTHER affinities, coincidences of biography alone might justify a synoptic glance at the figures brought together in this paper, the seventeenth-century contemporaries Robert Herrick the poet, Wenceslaus Hollar the engraver, and the John Tradescants, father and son, gardeners and collectors of curiosities for the rich and royal. Herrick, Hollar, and the elder Tradescant all found, and lost, patronage in or close to the court of Charles I. Both Herrick and the elder Tradescant participated in the unhappy military expedition led by the Duke of Buckingham, to the Isle de Rhe, within a year of the Duke's assassination in 1628; Herrick refers to the Tradescants' ...






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