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Jan Huyghen van Linschoten

Print
1610 (published)
Artist/Maker
Lambert Cornelis (engraver)
Place of origin
Amsterdam (published)

Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly left, within an oval border with letters; in the upper left corner is a representation of Goa, and Mozambique in the upper right corner; in each of the lower corners is a view of St. Helena.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleJan Huyghen van Linschoten (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, engraving by Lambert Cornelis, 1610.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly left, within an oval border with letters; in the upper left corner is a representation of Goa, and Mozambique in the upper right corner; in each of the lower corners is a view of St. Helena.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.4cm
  • Width: 16.8cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Style
Dutch School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'LC fe.' (Signed with monogram)
  • 'Soufrir Pour Parvenir Joannes Hugonis, A. Linschoten Haerlemensis Aeta 32 Ao 1595 and with place-names etc.' (Lettered)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This printed was published as a plate in Linschoten's Histoire de la navigation…etde son voyage es Indes Orientales…, Amsterdam, 1610.
Subjects depicted
Explorer
Historian
Merchant
Jan Huyghen Van Linschoten
Places depicted
Goa
Mozambique
Saint Helena
Bibliographic references
  • Bibliothèque Nationale. Catalogue de la collection des portraits français. Paris: G. Rapilly, 1896-1911. 7 v.
  • Muller, Frederik. Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 portretten, van Nederlanders. Amsterdam: F. Muller, 1853.
  • Someren, Jan Frederik van. Beschrijvende catalogus van gegraveerde portretten van Nederlanders. Amsterdam: F. Muller, 1888-91. 3 v.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.4435-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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