Portrait of Hendrik Hondius
Maker
(artist)
1597-1651
(engraver)
1590-1661
(publisher)
1612-1670
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
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
Keywords
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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