Portrait of Caspar Lilius
Maker
Michael Conrad Hirt (artist)
1615-after 1694 (Life dates)
(engraver)
1606-1688
(publisher)
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
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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