print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1901,1022.1424
- Title
- Object: Gerardus Uoannes Vossius Eloquent et Chronolog Prof
- Description
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Portrait of Gerardus Johannes Vossius, bust turned to the left, head slightly turned to face the viewer; with dark moustache and beard, wearing a ruff and a doublet; within oval; letterpress on verso; illustration to Jan van Meurs's "Joannis Meursii Athenae batavae, sive de Urbe leidensi et Academia virisque claris, qui utramque ingenio suo, atque scriptis, illustrarunt libri duo cum Oratione habita a Ludovico Capello" (Leiden; 1625)
Engraving
- Production date
- 1625 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 107 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is an illustration to Jan van Meurs's "Athenae batavae" publication, in which is also included a series of thirty-four portraits engraved by Willem van Swanenburg. For comment, see Bb,15.1079.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Joannis Meursii Athenae batavae, sive de Urbe leidensi et Academia virisque claris, qui utramque ingenio suo, atque scriptis, illustrarunt libri duo cum Oratione habita a Ludovico Capello (Leiden; 1625)
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1901,1022.1424