File:Thomas Cavendish.jpg
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English: An engraving of English explorer Sir Thomas Cavendish (or Candish) (1560–1592), who was known as "the Navigator" because he was the first to deliberately set out to circumnavigate the globe. The engraving contains the words "Thomas Candish, Armiger. Animum fortuna sequatur [The soul follows chance]". |
| Date | 1620; originally uploaded to en.wikipedia on 14 April 2006. |
| Source | Henry Holland ([1620]) Herōologia Anglica, hoc est clarissimorvm et doctissimorvm aliqovt [sic: aliqvot] Anglorvm qvi florvervnt ab anno Cristi M.D. vsq' ad presentem annvm M.D.C.XX viuae effigies vitae et elogia [List of English Heroes, that is, Lifelike Images of the Lives and Epitaphs of the most Famous and Educated of the English who Flourished from the Year of Christ 1500 until the Present Year 1620], [Arnhem]: Impensis C. Passaei calcographus [sic] et Iansonij bibliopolae Arnhemiensis [Printed by Jan Jansson at the expense of Crispijn van de Passe and Jan Jansson] OCLC: 6672789. See Heroologia Anglica. National Library of Australia. Retrieved on 2009-04-13. An original engraving (6 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in. (165 mm x 115 mm) paper size) is in the Macdonnell Collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London (NPG D16613, purchased 1966): Thomas Cavendish. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved on 2009-04-13. Originally transferred from en.wikipedia by HUB1; description page is/was here. |
| Author | Willem and Magdalena van de Passe; original uploader was The Man in Question at en.wikipedia. |
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- 2006-04-14 02:03 The Man in Question 1225×1518×8 (606204 bytes) ==Licensing== {{PD-old}}
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| current | 16:33, 30 March 2008 | | 1,225 × 1,518 (592 KB) | wikimediacommons>Adamt | {{PD-old}}) za en wiki autor user:The Man in Question |
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