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Gabriel Harvey
(1552 or 1553-1631), Scholar and writerSitter in 1 portrait
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Dr. Christopher McKeen
20 March 2020, 20:04
This is probably not an actual likeness. The image seems to be based on a woodcut used by Thomas Nashe to mock Harvey in his pamphlet "Have With You to Saffron Walden," but that woodcut was used in other printed materials such as ballads.