Sir Robert Gordon of Straloch, Scottish cartographer

Sir Robert Gordon of Straloch, 1580-1661. Scottish cartographer, noted as a poet, mathematician, antiquary, and geographer, and for his collection of music for the lute. In broad lace collar over doublet. From an original painting in the College of Aberdeen. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Trotter from John Smith's Iconographia Scotica, or portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland, Robert Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill, London, 1798

17th Century Antiquary Aristocrat Cartographer Doublet Geographer Iconographia Scotica John Smith Lace Collar Lute Mathematician Nobleman Robert Wilkinson Scot

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