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Portrait of Johannes Hellwigius

Maker

(artist)

(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

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

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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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