Unknown Artist and Jodocus Hondius
Thomas Cavendish
1586-1596
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 180 × 140 mm. (7 1/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4537
See BM 1867,1012.382. Sir Thomas Cavendish (19 September 1560 – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe.
Inscribed: Recto: in plate: in oval around portrait: "Thomas Candyssh Nobilis Anglvs Aetatis Svæ XXXII"; in left background: "Calis Malis Insvl"; continents labeled on maps
Markings: CM: Claghorn
Artist
Unknown Artist
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
