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Portrait of Caspar Lilius

Maker

Michael Conrad Hirt (artist)
1615-after 1694 (Life dates)

(engraver)
1606-1688

(publisher)

Title

Portrait of Caspar Lilius

Date of Production

c.1663

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.4 cm
Width: 14 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3030

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: centre within image, black ink: "uela Lilien, Cam: Pal: Caesazeg // Indimg // Supzenus,// CASPAR LILIUS BERL. S. THEOL. D. CONSIL. BRANDENB.GENERALIS SUPERINT. CNC. AUL. ET IN S. CONSIST. BARUTH. ADESSOR PRIMARI, AE.t. 31. An, 1663."; lower centre edge, black ink: "Principis ecce sui Doctor, Ductosque per ozas // externas, isthaec LESEUS ora gerit. // Illa sibi sedem, Sophie & Prudentia, legit: // Italus hinc coluit, Belgaque, Gallus, Iber. // Pauca vides! mentum, non Mentem, pinxit Apelles: // Hanc, simul effinxit, pinget Apollo polo. // M.C. Hirt pinxt. I. Sandrart Sculpsit. // Hisce Excell mu Virum in Ectypo Archetypu // absens veneratur Signifmundus a Sircen Comp. Pal.". Mount, Recto: lower centre edge, blue ink: "HIRT, M. G.".

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