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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
1948,0315.8.37
Title
Object:
Thomas Cavendish
Description
Portrait; half-length representation of Thomas Cavendish; almost front view; in slashed doublet; the hemispheres in front of him; placed in an oval border, lettered; on a black background with instruments, six lines of verse in margin. Engraving with etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Crispijn de Passe the Elder
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1590-1598
(c)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
etching
Dimensions
Height:
132 millimetres
Width:
95 millimetres
(trimmed)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Also in "Effigies Regum...1598", Hollstein vol. XV: 850
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(693.II)
Franken 1881 / L'oeuvre gravé des van de Passe
(516)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Thomas Cavendish
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Hermann Marx
Acquisition date
1948
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1948,0315.8.37