Engraving of the navigator and cartographer Sebastian Cabot (1474 - 1557), after an original by Hans Holbein [or the original may perhaps have been a close copy], that was destroyed by fire in 1845.
Effigies Sebastiani Caboti, Angli, filii Johanis Caboti Veneti, militis aurati, primi inventoris terrae novae sub Henrico VII Angliae Rege
[Portrait of Sebastian Cabot, Englishman, son of John Cabot of Venice, gilded knight, the first discoverer of new lands under Henry VII King of England]
top right:
Spes Mea In Deo
[My Hope is in God]
Notes
"An oil painting of Sebastian Cabot in old age, perhaps identical with one seen by Purchas in the royal collection at Whitehall before 1625, was in the 18th and 19th centuries in the possession, successively, of Lord Errol, of C. J. Harford of Bristol, and of Richard Biddle of Pittsburg, Pa. It was destroyed by fire in 1845; copies made by J. G. Chapman are owned by the Massachusetts and New York historical societies and by the Mayor and Corporation of Bristol. The portrait appears to be an ideal one, executed after Cabot’s death." -- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1 (1966) [1]
References
A version of the engraving was published in vol 2 of Samuel Seyer, Memoirs historical and topographical of Bristol and it's neighbourhood; from the earliest period down to the present time, printed in Bristol by John Mathew Gutch, 1823 (Internet Archive), text: "From the original in the possession of Charles Jos. Harford, Esqr."
The author died in 1860, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.