Portrait of Erasmus Gruber
Maker
(artist)
(engraver)
1630-1708
(engraver)
1630-1708
Title
Portrait of Erasmus Gruber
Date of Production
1654
Dimensions
Height: 18.9 cm
Width: 14.5 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
Keywords
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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