Portrait of a citizen of Nuremberg
Maker
(artist)
1627-1655
(engraver)
1630-1708
1627-1655
(engraver)
1630-1708
Title
Portrait of a citizen of Nuremberg
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Height: 17 cm
Width: 11.4 cm
Width: 11.4 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.3555
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: upper centre in cartouche, printed within image: M. IOH. Schuster , PARCHIM. MEGAPOLIT. LONERSTADI/ PASTOR PER ANNOS XIII. ET INTER HOS SESQ ANNO NO / RIBERGÆ AD S. ÆGIDIDIAC. VICARIUS, DENIQ FÜRTHI/ PASTOR PER ANNOS XXVI. OBIIT Ao ÆT. LXXX.; lower centre, printed within image: En caput et corpus venerandum! En pulcra senectus, / per Matrem Sociam, Vitrici; amore, Patris! / Qui sacra verba DEI norat de fontibus ipsis, / Qui mores fugit corripuitq[ue] malos, / Pro grege qui subiit matura pericula mille; / Iam vero in Coelis mille brabea capit! / Hujusq beato Nomini, quiquid hoc est, consecrat, quae commori nesciit, filialis observantia / M. Joh. Ludovici Hagendornij, Noribergensis, ibid. D. ÆgidISymmystae; lower left, printed: J. Sandrart sculp: A.o 1663.; lower right, printed: D. Preisler Pinxit.
Mount: lower centre, handwritten in pencil: 20 / D PREISLER / Stamp M; upper right, stamped: WITT LIBRARY
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