Portrait of Adam Elsheimer
Maker
(artist)
1578-1610
(engraver)
1597-1651
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
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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