Robert Vaughan (engraver)

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Robert Vaughan (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was an English engraver.

Born
c. 1600
Diedc. 1660
OccupationEngraver
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Robert Vaughan
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c. 1600
Diedc. 1660
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Vaughan was born circa 1600. The National Portrait Gallery states that Vaughan was a "versatile line engraver, producing portraits, maps, bookplates, series of prints and the occasional broadsheet." He engraved the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum.[1]

Vaughan was an acquaintance of Thomas Vaughan. Robert was a supporter of the Royalists during the English Civil War. He was indicted in 1651 for publishing a print of King Charles I, who had recently been executed. Vaughan died circa 1660.[1]

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