print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: Bb,16.260
Title: Object: Thomas Candyssh Nobilis Anglus Aeta Sua XXX
Description: Portrait of Thomas Cavendish, half-length, in an oval lettered with the title, slightly turned to the right, dressed in an slashed doublet embroidered with flowers and with floral buttons, wearing a single pearl earring, holding the two hemispheres before him, mystical and navigational instruments including a compass outside the border, the motto 'Extremos Pudeat Redisse' lettered to the parapet; illustration to 'Effigies Regum Ac Principum Vis Ac Potentia in Re Nautica" (1598) Engraving with etching
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Production date: 1598
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Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 108 millimetres; Width: 105 millimetres
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Curator's comments: See 1948,0315.8.37 for another impression Also in "Effigies Regum...1598", Hollstein vol. XV: 850
Bibliographic references: O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (5); Franken 1881 / L'oeuvre gravé des van de Passe (516); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (XV.693)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1818
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Bb,16.260

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