2-715-730 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sir Philip Sidney at Zutphen', 1586, (1890). Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Elizabethan poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier was shot in the thigh at the Battle of Zutphen, 1586 after removing his leg armour, he died of gangrene 26 days later. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]