File:Rolka Mechti Kuli Beg.jpg

File
File usage
Learn more

Rolka_Mechti_Kuli_Beg.jpg ‎(400 × 244 pixels, file size: 55 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

Artist

Balthasar Gebhardt
Alternative names	Baltazar, Balthazar, Gebhard, Gerhard
Description	German painter Hofmaler (court painter) of Archduke Ferdinand (1578-1637)
Location of birth	Lahr/Schwarzwald
Work location	Kraków (1605), Strasbourg (1631-1638)

Title

English: Entry of the wedding procession of Sigismund III Vasa into Cracow (detail).

Polski: Wjazd orszaku weselnego Zygmunta III Wazy do Krakowa (fragment).

Alternative title(s):

English: "Stockholm Roll" or "Polish roll" (Polsk rulen).

Polski: "Rolka sztokholmska" lub "Rulon polski" (Polsk rulen).

Date

circa 1605

Medium

watercolor and gouache on parchment

Dimensions

16.09 × 27 cm (6.3 × 10.6 in) (whole)

Current location

Royal Castle in Warsaw

	Native name	Zamek Królewski w Warszawie
	Location	Warsaw
	Coordinates	52° 14′ 52.00″ N, 21° 0′ 51.00″ E
	Established	1984 (Museum)
	Website	www.zamek-krolewski.pl

Warsaw

Object history

circa 1605: commissioned by Sigismund III of Poland, Warsaw
1655: transferred to Charles X Gustav of Sweden
1650s: transferred to Livrustkammaren, Stockholm

1974: transferred to Poland

Notes

English: Detail with the Persian Ambassador Mechti Kuli Beg.

Source/Photographer

www.zwoje-scrolls.com

Permission
( Reusing this file)

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

	This work is in the public domain* in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.*
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain". For details, see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain.

Please be aware that depending on local laws, re-use of this content may be prohibited or restricted in your jurisdiction. See Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs.

File usage

The following pages on Schools Wikipedia link to this image (list may be incomplete):

17th century

Learn more

Wikipedia for Schools brings Wikipedia into the classroom. SOS Childrens Villages works in 133 countries and territories across the globe, helps more than 62,000 children, and reaches over 2 million people in total. Why not try to learn more about child sponsorship?