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Portrait of a citizen of Nuremberg

Maker

(artist)
1627-1655

(engraver)
1630-1708

Title

Portrait of a citizen of Nuremberg

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 17 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

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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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