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Last Name Rowlands
Given Name Richard
alt. Names R. R. ; pseudonym Verstegen / Verstegan / Richard Roulands / Rowlaunde ;
Marriage
Children
Year born 1550 c. probably in London
Year died 1640
Place of death Antwerp, then Spanish Netherlands, now Belgium
Father's occupation a cooper established in East London
Relatives grandfather, Theodore Roland Verstegen, a Dutch emigrant, came from Gelderland to the Kingdom of England c. 1500.
Education as Richard Rowlaunde, he went to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1564, where he may have studied early English history & Anglo-Saxon language
Country of Activity England, UK
Worked for Restitution of decayed intelligence, in antiquities (1605, with 11 engravings drawn by him) ;
Patronage indentured to a goldsmith, and became a Freeman of the Company of Goldsmiths in 1574.
Collaborators copper engravers for the plates in his books ;
Techniques paleontological, historical, and topographical drawing
Sample(s) http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/site/assets/files/1102/1__09_groys--torture_engraving.800x0-is.jpg
Archival sources
Published sources Davidson 2008: 13-6 :
other Expatriote English Catholoic polemicist; In 1585/86 he moved to Antwerp, and set up in business as a publisher & engraver, intelligencer, a smuggler of books & people.
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