Object data
paper
frame: height 66 cm × width 73.5 cm
Edouard Taurel, after Christoffel Bisschop
Engraving of Willem Barendsz (1550-1597) and Jacob van Heemskerck (1567-1607)
Netherlands, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1850
Inscriptions
- inscription, bottom centre: HEEMSKERK EN BARENDS / hun tweeden togt naar het Noorden beramende.
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1346
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Framed steel engraving representing Willem Barendsz (1550-1597) and Jacob van Heemskerk (1567-1507), two famous Dutch explorers of the late sixteenth century, planning their second attempt to find a north-eastern route to the Indies. They are depicted in a room at a table studying a globe. On the wall is a map of Nova Zembla, a ship model (not contemporary) on a shelf and a skin of a shot polar bear next to the handwritten date ‘9 Juli 1594’: a reference to their first voyage to Nova Zembla.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1346
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Edouard Taurel, Engraving of Willem Barendsz (1550-1597) and Jacob van Heemskerck (1567-1607), Netherlands, 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245148
(accessed 22 September 2024 05:37:50).