File:Christopher Marlowe.jpg

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Summary

Portrait of a Gentleman

Title

Unknown 21-year old man, supposed to be Christopher Marlowe

Object type

panel painting / painting

Genre

portrait

Depicted people

Christopher Marlowe

Date

1585

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

height: 24 cm (9.4 in)

; width: 19 cm (7.4 in)

Collection

Corpus Christi College

	Native name	The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, University of Cambridge
	Location	Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
	Coordinates	52° 12′ 10.33″ N, 0° 07′ 05.56″ E
	Established	1352
	Website	www.corpus.cam.ac.uk
	Authority file	: Q536282 VIAF: 146606689 ISNI: 0000000122939906 LCCN: n82129794 Historic England: 1125553 SUDOC: 030180740 WorldCat

Accession number

76 (Corpus Christi College)

Object location

52° 12′ 11.2″ N, 0° 07′ 05″ E

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References

Source/Photographer

http://factoidz.com/images/user/42777.jpg

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:34, 16 June 2021	1,584 × 2,000 (1.03 MB)	TSP	Higher resolution copy of same scan. From https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/painting-of-a-young-man-perhaps-christopher-marlowe-1585 .
	16:23, 22 December 2010	631 × 800 (147 KB)	Cropbot	upload cropped version, operated by User:Quibik. Summary: cropped (losslessly)
	02:32, 22 December 2010	631 × 832 (152 KB)	Tom Reedy	Denser version from http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowe-corpuschristi.jpg
	18:42, 3 June 2010	591 × 746 (264 KB)	Quibik	higher-quality version from http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=225696 (needed some minor cropping)
	00:30, 26 July 2005	200 × 309 (8 KB)	Matanya (usurped)	from en wikipedia. A portrait, supposedly of Christopher Marlowe, in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. There is in fact no evidence that the anonymous sitter is Marlowe, but he is the correct age and his swaggering demeanour fits the image o