Portrait of Johannes Hellwigius
Maker
(artist)
(engraver)
1630-1708
(engraver)
1630-1708
Title
Portrait of Johannes Hellwigius
Date of Production
1655
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 13.6 cm
Width: 13.6 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.3067
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, within image, printed: IOHANNES HELLWIGIUS PHIL & MED. DOCTOR. / NATUS NORIM BERGAE A.C. 1609. / Blanda micans sedet ore viri virtutis Imago, / Et mores placidi, non sine laude patent. / Effugium Mortis Medicina et Glyptica tractant: / Corporis effigiem haec, illa dat esse bene. / Qui vitas hominum servat, servatur in aere, / HELLWIGIVS magni Principis Archiater. / G.C. Eimart pinxit. / J. Sandrart sculpsit Ao. 1655. / f: G.P.H..
Mount: lower right, black ink: 965/33 (20); lower centre, black ink: G.C. EIMART; lower right, black ink: 260.
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