An engraving of Francis Bacon (1561–1626), politician and philosopher, Privy Councillor from 1616, Lord Chancellor from 1618, Viscount St Alban from 1621. Portrait wearing hat, with high ruff, brocade corselet and fur mantle. Holding the purse of the Great Seal. This print records Bacon's role as Lord Keeper, which he held from March 1617, but not his appointment as Lord Chancellor in January 1618, suggesting it was made in the latter part of 1617. The plate was later altered to be a portrait of Thomas Coventry.

This print is lettered around the portrait: "HONORATISS: D'. FRANCISCUS BACON EQVES AU: MAG: SIGILL: ANGL. [C]USTOS."; at the lower centre: "The righte Honourable S.^r FRAVNCIS BACON / knight, Lorde keeper of the greate Seale of Englande and / one of his Ma.^ties most hon.^ble priuie Counsell. // Simon Passæus sculpsit L. // Are to be sould by Iohn Sudbury & George Humble at the signe of the / white horse, in Popes head Ally."

The print formed part of an album of portrait prints assembled by Cassiano and his younger brother Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo in Rome. Described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Heads of English illustrious Personages, the album was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and incorporated into the sequences of British portrait prints in the collection.

For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 1468.