print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.2289
- Title
- Object: Nicolaus Copernicus Tonnaeus Borussus, Mathemat. Nat Ao 1473 ob 1543
- Description
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Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus, half-length, directed to the left, looking at the viewer; within a lettered oval; above a lettered strapwork plaque; surrounded by fruit and flower decoration in the margins; illustration from "Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium, doctrina & eruditione præstantium" (Frankfurt am Mein: Theodoor de Bry, 1597).
Engraving
- Production date
- 1597
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres
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Width: 108 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the associated title see 1895,1031.85.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium, doctrina & eruditione præstantium ... cum eorum vitis descriptis a Ian. Iac. Boissardo. Omnia recens in æs artificiose incisa, & demum foras data per Theodorum de Bry (Frankfurt am Mein: Theodoor de Bry, 1597)
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.2289
