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Portrait of Adam Elsheimer

Maker

(artist)
1578-1610

(engraver)
1597-1651

Title

Portrait of Adam Elsheimer

Date of Production

1610

Medium

ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.9 cm
Width: 12.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3076

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










Notes

Print from the series Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper left, within image, monogram of Hendrik Hondius: Hh; centre left, within image: Cum privil. lower margin, printed: ADAMUS FRANCOFURTENSIS / Elsheymer, / PICTOR. / Romam urbem primis placuit tibi visere ab annis: / Pictorum Roma est Artificumque Schola. / Assiduo pingens lustras dum singula templis; / Pic tores inter nobile nomen erit. Mount: lower right, pencil: Engr. by Hendrik Hondius; lower centre, typewritten: A. ELSHEIMER; lower left, pencil: 969/13 (68); lower right, pencil: 266.

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