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Portrait of Christopher Imhoff, citizen of Nuremberg

Maker

(artist)
1627-1655

(engraver)
1630-1708

Title

Portrait of Christopher Imhoff, citizen of Nuremberg

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 21.3 cm
Width: 14.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3557

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: in frame within image, printed: CRISTOPHORUS ANDREAS IM HOFF P.N. ET PRÆFECTUS OPPIDI ALTDORFFINI ÆTATIS SUÆ. LIII.; lower centre, printed within image: D. Preisler ad vivum pinxit. Jacob Sandrart Sculp.; on plinth within image, printed: Aspice per varios IMHOFFI exercite casus, / Virtutisne decus fulget in ære satis? / Immo animus hominum victura perennius ære est. / Gratia quamvultus hæc generosa tegit. / Facta bono Patriæ patrata tog a[t]q[ue], sagoq[ue] / Norica postgenitis petra legenda dabit.; right, on plinth within image, printed: In honorem Nobilis: et Per strennij Dn : / Præfecti Img. f. / M. Johannes Conradus Dur. s.s. Theol: et: Philolo: / Mor: Prof: Publ: Universit. Altdorf. h.t. Rector Mount: lower centre, handwritten in pencil: 20 / D PREISLER / Stamp M; upper right mount, stamped: WITT LIBRARY

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