print
- Museum number
- 1870,0625.1044
- Description
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Portrait of Martin Luther, half length, head turned to the right, holding quill pen in right hand; on a table in the foreground, the Old and New Testaments in German, with a manuscript leaf lying beside; in the background, shelves of books and a curtain draped in the top right corner. Six lines of text below the image present salient points of Luther's biography. Signed on the plate. Set in an ornamental frame of curling vines, printed from a separate plate and trimmed.
Engraving
- Production date
- 17thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 499 millimetres
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Width: 370 millimetres (size of sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See BM Bb,17.43 for another impression.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Ripped along edge, with large crease across image
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,0625.1044