Artisan

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Cutler Beckett employed an artisan to work on a map of the world.

An artisan was a skilled craft worker who made or created material objects partly or entirely by hand. These objects may be functional or strictly decorative, for example furniture, decorative art, sculpture, clothing, food items, household items, and tools and mechanisms such as the handmade clockwork movement of a watchmaker. Artisans practiced a craft and may, through experience and aptitude, reach the expressive levels of an artist.

Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company had great ambitions for the Company and has a map of the world painted on his office wall to illustrate them. Beckett's plans needed to be constantly updated. He employed an artisan to make daily changes to the map. As ships brought reports of the Company's growing power and new discoveries, he painted in blank sections of the map and adds new ports, countries, and towns. The artisan was actively painting the unfinished map as Cutler Beckett spoke with Will Turner and Governor Weatherby Swann in his office, with the countries of the map were filled in, though most ports and towns remained blank.

Behind the scenes

Artisans first appear in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which features an individual only identified as an "artisan" in other media, based on the screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, notably in the 2006 reference book Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide, later reprinted in the 2007 book The Complete Visual Guide.

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for Dead Man's Chest, the character did not appear in the scene between Will Turner, Cutler Beckett, and the unfinished map of the world in Beckett's office, with the artisan's first scene being when Beckett talks to Governor Weatherby Swann. After James Norrington hands the heart of Davy Jones to Beckett and the Flying Dutchman arrives to Port Royal, the Artisan, misspelled as "Artisian" twice in the scene, told Beckett of the map being finished. The scene never made it to the final cut of the film but was retained in the film's deleted scene "The Map Is Finished" featured in Blu-ray releases beginning in 2011.

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide (First identified as artisan)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide