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Portrait of Christoph Schwaiger

Maker

(artist)
1552-1615

(engraver)
1579-1637

Title

Portrait of Christoph Schwaiger

Date of Production

c.1600

Medium


Dimensions

Height: 21 cm
Width: 13 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3192

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: centre within image, black ink: "CHRISTOPH SCHWAIGER AETATIS SVAE LXVIII AN[N]O M. DC."; lower centre edge within image, black ink: "S.C.M. pictor Ioa[n]. ab Ach pinxit. // Lucas Kilianus Scalptor"; lower centre, black ink: "Caelandis gemma, SCHVAIGERE experte, Sigillis // Qui poteras gnarum vincere Pyrgotelem: // Pyrgotelem gratum Pellaeo tollere Regi // Quae neguijt, tollet te quoque nulla dies. // Verum parte tui, coelo, potiore receptus, // Summo anteis Regem. Pijrgotelemque bono // Memoriae Chariss. amici pie in Christo defuncti amoris et recordat. // ergo Dom. Custos cael. civ. Aug. Vind. lub. mer. dddt.". Mount, Recto: lower centre, black ink: "Johann van Aachen // 953/6 (17)".

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