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Book/Printed Material Effigies regvm ac principum, eorum scilicet, quor[um] vis ac potentia in re nautica seu marina prae caeteris spectabilis est Effigies regum ac principum / Initium artis navigandi

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Title

  • Effigies regvm ac principum, eorum scilicet, quor[um] vis ac potentia in re nautica seu marina prae caeteris spectabilis est : quibuspropter materiȩ affinitatem adiectȩ sunt et imagines praestantissimorum ac maximè illustrium heroum, quorum virtus ac solertia in expeditionibus nauticis praecipuè claruit

Other Title

  • Effigies regum ac principum
  • Initium artis navigandi

Summary

  • This series of portraits, one of the finest works of de Passe in this genre, is of considerable American interest, as it includes engravings of the great navigators of the Renaissance period, such as Columbus, Magellan, Vespucci, and Laudonnière. The portrait of Drake is of especial interest: it is a close copy of the smaller Hondius Drake portrait which in its first state exists in only two copies (Royal Geographical Society, and Huntington Library). It depicts him in bust, with a shield, and with a two-hemisphere terrestrial map displaying the track of his circumnavigation. The portrait of Thomas Cavendish is also very interesting; this is after the Hondius engraving which was issued with his smaller Drake portrait. It also exists only in two copies (Royal Geographical Society; Ryksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam). It has a two-hemisphere map with the track of Cavendish's circumnavigation.

Names

  • Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637
  • Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594, illustrator
  • Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604, metal engraver
  • Quad, Matthias, 1557-1613

Created / Published

  • [Cologne] : [publisher not identified], [1598?]

Headings

  • -  Discoveries in geography--Pictorial works
  • -  Explorers--Pictorial works
  • -  Kings and rulers--Pictorial works

Notes

  • -  "Initivm artis navigandi, eivsqve praecipvi avtores et actores, in praesens vsque saeculum" (p. [5]-[15], in letterpress)--dated "Coloniae Agrippinae, anno 1598."
  • -  Certain copies of this work, including the present one, have some added plates bound in. These are not signed by de Passe (as are the title and 18 portraits), and are not included among his work in Hollstein's authoritative list; nor are they mentioned on the title, nor in Quad's text, which refers only to the portraits. The work is therefore complete as collated above.
  • -  Engraved illustrated t.p.
  • -  The epigrammatic verses in Latin beneath each portrait in this series were written by Matthias Quad, the scholar-cartographer, as stated on the title. Quad also wrote the 12 pages of text, which is interesting from several points of view. He clearly states that the Hondius map of the Drake and Cavendish voyages was published at Amsterdam. Hind had surmised this, though he lists it among the engravings of Hondius' English period. Quad mentions Cavendish's command of a ship in Sir Richard Grenville's voyage to Virginia in 1585, and states that he himself being then in London, saw the two Virginia Indians whom Grenville brought back.
  • -  World map engraved by Girolamo Porro after Gerhard Mercator.
  • -  Alden, J.E. European American, 598/79
  • -  BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 677
  • -  Franken, D. Oeuvre des van de Passe, 1335
  • -  VD 16 P873
  • -  drakenew

Medium

  • [16] pages (pages [1-2] and [16] blank), [13] folded leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations, maps, portraits (engraving) ; 25 cm (fol.)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021699439

Online Format

  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Passe, Crispijn Van De, Approximately, Gerhard Mercator, Girolamo Porro, and Matthias Quad. Effigies Regvm Ac Principum, Eorum Scilicet, Quorum Vis Ac Potentia in Re Nautica Seu Marina Prae Caeteris Spectabilis Est: Quibuspropter Materiȩ Affinitatem Adiectȩ Sunt Et Imagines Praestantissimorum Ac Maximè Illustrium Heroum, Quorum Virtus Ac Solertia in Expeditionibus Nauticis Praecipuè Claruit. [Cologne: publisher not identified, ?, 1598] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021699439/.

APA citation style:

Passe, C. V. D., Mercator, G., Porro, G. & Quad, M. (1598) Effigies Regvm Ac Principum, Eorum Scilicet, Quorum Vis Ac Potentia in Re Nautica Seu Marina Prae Caeteris Spectabilis Est: Quibuspropter Materiȩ Affinitatem Adiectȩ Sunt Et Imagines Praestantissimorum Ac Maximè Illustrium Heroum, Quorum Virtus Ac Solertia in Expeditionibus Nauticis Praecipuè Claruit. [Cologne: publisher not identified, ?] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021699439/.

MLA citation style:

Passe, Crispijn Van De, Approximately, et al. Effigies Regvm Ac Principum, Eorum Scilicet, Quorum Vis Ac Potentia in Re Nautica Seu Marina Prae Caeteris Spectabilis Est: Quibuspropter Materiȩ Affinitatem Adiectȩ Sunt Et Imagines Praestantissimorum Ac Maximè Illustrium Heroum, Quorum Virtus Ac Solertia in Expeditionibus Nauticis Praecipuè Claruit. [Cologne: publisher not identified, ?, 1598] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021699439/>.