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Thomas Candyssh Nobilis Anglus

Print
1598 (published)
Artist/Maker
Crispijn De Passe (engraver)
Place of origin
Cologne (published)

Print, portrait of a man, half length, facing slightly right, within an oval border and holding a map of the world in two hemisphere, with letters in the upper corners, a star and a cross below, a compass and a heraldic decoration.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleThomas Candyssh Nobilis Anglus (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Thomas Cavendish, engraving by Crispijn de Passe I, 1598.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, half length, facing slightly right, within an oval border and holding a map of the world in two hemisphere, with letters in the upper corners, a star and a cross below, a compass and a heraldic decoration.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.3cm
  • Width: 9.5cm
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
German School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'CVP' (Signed with monogram)
  • 'Aemulus…armis / Thomas Candyssh Nobilis Anglus Aeta. Suae XXX. Extremos Pudeat Rediisse.' (Lettered with 6 lines of verse and)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Subjects depicted
Explorer
Map
Star
Cross
Compass
Thomas Cavendish
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
  • Franken, Daniel. L’Oeuvre grave des Van De Passe. Amsterdam and Paris: F. Muller & Co., 1881.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.
  • O'Donoghue, Freeman. British Museum: Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908-25.
  • Hind, Arthur Mayger. Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. London: Cambridge University Press, 1952-5, 3 v.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2986-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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