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Here: John Dee, by unknown artist; c. 1594 (© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford); John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (© National Trust Images/John Hammond); Map by Martin Waldseemüller, printed in Universalis Cosmographia; 1507 (Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress); Title page of The Commonwealth of England, by Thomas Smith, 1609; Sebastian Cabot, engraving after Hans Holbein, 1824 (© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)

Here: Martin Frobisher by Cornelis Ketel, c. 1577 (The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford); William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, by unknown artist (© National Portrait Gallery, London); Anne, Countess of Warwick, attributed to The Master of the Countess of Warwick, 1566–1569 (From The Woburn Abbey Collection); Matthew Baker, an image from Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrightry (By permission of the Pepys Library, Magdalene College Cambridge)

Here: A chart showing Frobisher’s straits and surrounding area, from A True Discourse of the late voyages of discouerie…, 1578 (© British Library Board/Robana/Art Resource, NY); An image from Accounts, with subsidiary documents, of Michael Lok, treasurer, of first, second and third voyages of Martin Frobisher to Cathay by the north-west passage, 1576–1578 (© The National Archives, UK); Mining in Potosí, engraving by Theodor de Bry in Historia Americae sive Novi Orbis; 1596 (Image & Sound Collections, International Institute of Social History [Amsterdam])

Here: LONDON, c. 1560, Engraving from Civitates Orbis Terrarum, by Frans Hogenberg, 1572 (Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In the collection of the Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg); Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham, by Anthonis Mor, c. 1560–c. 1565, (Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam); The Royal Exchange, London, by Frans Hogenberg; c. 1569 (Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org)

Here: GILBERT’S MAP OF THE WORLD, 1576, A general map, made onelye for the particuler declaration of this discovery, by H. Middleton for R. Jhones, 1576 (British Library/Granger, NYC—All Rights Reserved); Sir Francis Walsingham, possibly after John De Critz the Elder; based on a work of circa 1587 (© National Portrait Gallery, London); Sir Humphrey Gilbert, by an unknown artist, c.1584 (National Trust Photo Library/Art Resource, NY)

Here: Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh), by Nicholas Hilliard, circa 1585 (© National Portrait Gallery, London); WHITE’S DRAWINGS OF INDIANS AT ROANOKE, 1585 [The Flyer, left; Woman and Child, right], Native Indian Conjurer, by Theodor de Bry, in America, after a drawing by John White, 1590 (© The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource, NY); An Indian woman and child of Pomeiooc in Virginia, by John White, 1585 (© The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource, NY)

Here: Sir Francis Drake, by an unknown artist; circa 1581 (© National Portrait Gallery, London); Elizabeth I, attributed to George Gower, c. 1588 (From The Woburn Abbey Collection); Portrait of Philip II, by Sofonisba Anguissola, 1565 (Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In the collection of the Prado Museum, Madrid.)

Here: TREATY OF LONDON CEREMONY, 1604, The Somerset House Conference, 19 August 1604, by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, circa 1604 (© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London); Sir Thomas Smythe, by Simon de Passe, John Woodall, 1616 (© National Portrait Gallery, London); King James I of England and VI of Scotland, after John De Critz the Elder, c. 1605 (© National Portrait Gallery, London); Image of John Smith, from A Description of New-England, by an unknown artist, possibly after Simon de Passe, c. 1617 (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution); Portrait of Pocahontas, aged 21, by Crispin van de Passe, 1616 (© The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource, NY)