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Portrait of Erasmus Gruber

Maker

(artist)

(engraver)
1630-1708

Title

Portrait of Erasmus Gruber

Date of Production

1654

Dimensions

Height: 18.9 cm
Width: 14.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3071

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: around the portrait, black ink: “PLURIMUM REVEREND & PRAECLARISSIM DN. ERASMUS GRUBERUS, VERBI DIVINI IN ORTHODOXA RATISPONENSIUM ECCLESIA MINSTER, & CONSISTORY ADSESSOR AE 45//”; below the image, black ink: “Hic est qui fidei propugnat dogmata verae, / quiq animat DOMINI voce styloq gregem, / quem colit Imbripolis, melior quem diligit orbis, / GRVBERVS Sophies Eusebiesq decus! / G. Christoph Eimart pinx. Jacob Sandrart sculp: Ratis: AO. 1654 //”.

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