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malba object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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English: Full-length life-size oil painting portrait of English explorer Martin Frobisher commissioned by the Company of Cathay to commemorate his 1576 Northwest Passage voyage and promote the planned follow-up expedition of 1577.
It is the only surviving painting of a series of fifteen that Netherlandish artist Cornelis Ketel made in England between 1576 and 1578 for the Company. The fourteen lost paintings depicted English and Inuit people involved with Frobisher's three Northwest Passage voyages, as well as the ship Gabriel.
The only contemporary portrait of Frobisher. […] his sword and dagger have matching handles, blued and gilt. The globe behind Frobisher shows Europe and the eastern coast of North America. At some point the painting was cut down on the right side, and part of the composition may have been lost.
Frobisher stands gazing intensely out of the canvas. He wears a bosun's whistle around his neck (used for calling orders at sea) along with a rapier and dagger at his waist. In his left hand he carries an ornate wheel-lock pistol, his index finger ready on the trigger. These instruments have been 'carefully rendered' and suggest an elevated social status, while also to the 'nature and potential danger of his activities'. [...] Although the paintings of Frobisher, Lok and Hall were commissioned following the 1576 expedition, Frobisher's extant portrait is dated 1577. It is possible that Ketel took several months to finish the picture and dated it upon its completion; alternatively, the picture could have been strategically inscribed to coincide with fundraising for the company's second voyage. [...] Ketel shows Frobisher dressed head to toe in yellow hosen, breeches, and doublet, pictured as a gilded emblem for the company's prospects, a glowing beacon of its future fortunes. [...] while the company's choice to use the full-length format may reflect something of the influence of Netherlandish art in England, it seems also to have been chosen to convey the monumental potential and historic importance of the expedition itself.
he is comprehensively armed, perhaps a hint to potential interlopers, whilst around his neck, a whistle somewaht prematurely denotes high command at sea.
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Datum |
1577 date QS:P571,+1577-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Technika |
olej na plátně medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Rozměry |
výška: 208 cm; šířka: 93 cm dimensions QS:P2048,208.0U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,93.0U174728 |
Sbírka |
Bodleyova knihovna
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Nativní název |
Bodleian Library |
Nadřazená instituce |
Oxford University |
Poloha |
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Souřadnice |
51° 45′ 14,3″ s. š., 1° 15′ 18,5″ z. d. |
Založeno |
1602 |
Internetová stránka |
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk |
Soubor autorit |
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institution QS:P195,Q82133
Oxfordská univerzita
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Nativní název |
University of Oxford |
Nadřazená instituce |
ELIXIR UK |
Poloha |
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Souřadnice |
51° 45′ 18″ s. š., 1° 15′ 18″ z. d. |
Založeno |
1096 |
Internetová stránka |
ox.ac.uk |
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institution QS:P195,Q34433 |
Současné umístění |
Portraits |
Inventární číslo |
Bodleian Library LP 50 |
Place of creation |
England |
Historie |
1576: commissioned by Company of Cathay for £5
1674: given to Oxford University by
creator QS:P170,Q3084997
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História vystavenia |
- Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington Museum, Londýn, 1866, kat. č. 395
- National Exhibition of Works of Art, Leeds, 1868, kat. č. 3066
- Royal Naval Exhibition, Chelsea, 1891, kat. č. 224
- Historical Portraits, Oxford, 1904, kat. č. 68
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Vnitřní znaky |
Aº dñi · 1577 ~
[Anno domini · 1577 ~] [In the year of the Lord · 1577 ~]
Ætatis svæ · 39 ~
[At the age of 39 ~]
· CK · F ·
[· Cornelis Ketel · Fecit ·] [· Cornelis Ketel · Made ·]
Martin Frobiser Miles.
[Martin Frobisher Knight.] In late 17th century capitals
ex dono Gvalteri Charleton, M.D.
[as a gift from Walter Charleton, M.D.] In late 17th century capitals |
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Zdroj/Fotograf |
Digital Bodleian
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Svolení (Užití tohoto souboru) |
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
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Autor zemřel v roce 1616, takže toto dílo je volné také v zemích, jejichž právní řád chrání majetková autorská práva po dobu života autora a 100 let po jeho smrti.
Toto dílo je ve Spojených státech amerických dílem volným (public domain), protože tam bylo registrováno u U.S. Copyright Office nebo zveřejněno před 1. lednem 1929.
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Bylo zjištěno, že u tohoto souboru nejsou známa žádná omezení daná autorským právem a právy s ním souvisejícími.
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