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Portrait of George Paul Imhof

Maker

G.I.L. (artist)

(engraver)
1668-1691

Title

Portrait of George Paul Imhof

Date of Production

1689

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 32.3 cm
Width: 24.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3173

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: within the image, upper left corner, black ink: “Spero postatra serena. //”; upper right corner, black ink: “Pro grege sommum excels volo.//”; around the portrait, black ink: “GEORGIUS PAULUS IMHOF; REIP: NOR. II. VIR PRIM. PRAET. ET CASTELLAN NEC NON SUMM AE RAR. & XENODOCH. ADSP. PRAEFECT. NAT.A.MDCIII. DEN.A.MDCLXXXIX.//”; below the portrait, in a cartouche, above coat of arms, black ink: “SPE VIGILIUM HORAS FUGO //”; lower centre, black ink: “Ut de nocte Virgil rediturae / tempor lucis /Sperat, et hac inspe noctis / opaca fugat ; / Sic Ego, SPE VIGILIUM, celeres / FUGO temporis HORAS, AEthereos sitiens spe meliore / dies. / G.I.L ang ad vivum pinxit / AD 1689. / I. de Sadrat Sculpsit / AD 1689. //.

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