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Portrait of Hendrik Hondius

Maker

(artist)
1597-1651

(engraver)
1590-1661

(publisher)
1612-1670

Title

Portrait of Hendrik Hondius

Date of Production

1649

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.7 cm
Width: 11.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2951.59

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, black ink: "108 HENRICVS HONDIVS // Engraveur, et tres bon Deseyniateur Natif de Duffel en Brabant l'an 1573. de Noble // Origine il at apris a deseynier chez Ioannes Wierex, il excercoit ausi en Orpherie, // mais il fut tout iour plus incline a la gravure, il at aussi apris la Mathematique, la Geo: // metrie, Perspective, Architecture, et Fortification. chez le Vieux Iean Vredeman Vrise, et // aupres Samuel Marelois homme sans pareil, ou il a tout bien experimentez monstrant // per les oeures, q'on voit de luy en estampes, maintenant il demeure en la Haye. // Henricus Hondius delineavit. Fredricus Bouttats fecit. Ioan. Meyssens excud.".

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