Historical Portrait Engravings

Engravings depicting 16th-17th century scholars and artists holding tools of their trades, characterized by elaborate costumes and framed with ornate designs.

Niccolo Tartaglia (1500 - 1559) Italian mathematician

In his hands he holds a painter's palette and brushes In the margin a four-line caption in Latin, Portrait of painter William Key Portraits of painters Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae Inferioris effigies , print maker: Johannes Wierix, (mentioned on object), Dominicus Lampsonius, publisher: weduwe Hieronymus Cock, Antwerp, 1572, paper, engraving, h 218 mm × w 121 mm

Apior, Peter Stecher: Bry, Johann Theodor Dedation: 1597/1599

Niccolo Tartaglia (1500 - 1559) Italian mathematician

Mithobius, Burchardus.

France, Boissard, Robert, Series of portraits of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century scholars, Joannes Dryander Med Anatomicus & Mathematic., Portrait of Johann Dryander, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 142 mm, width 107 mm, 1570 - 1611, print maker, printmaker, 1597 - 1599, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Fox, Gilbert Publisher: Ammon, Johannstecher: Bry, Johann Theodor Deverlaysort: Frankfurt (Main)

Wolfgang Lazius. Woodcut by T. Stimmer ?, 1590.

Portrait of Niccolo Tartaglia, a famous Italian mathematician Bust to the left The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series of famous European scholars, Portrait of Niccolo Tartaglia Nicolavs Tartaglia Brixianvs Portraits of famous European scholars Virorum doctorum de disciplinis benemerentium effigies , print maker: Philips Galle, Benedictus Arias Montanus, printer: Christoffel Plantijn, Antwerp, 1572, paper, engraving, letterpress printing, h 195 mm × w 128 mm

Spano of schoolchildren, Filippo.

Portret Van Timoer Lenk, Jan Lamsvelt, 1684 - 1743 print Portrait bust in Ovaal to the left of Timoer Lenk, founder of the Timuridic Empire, with fur hat. The portrait is based on a pedestal on which the name of the portrayed person is. paper engraving

VASILY III Grand Prince of Moscow (1505-33), son and successor to Ivan III Date: 1479 - 1533

Arnulf I, Count of Flanders.

Oval portrait of William Caxton, English printer, c. 1422 c. 1491. with his printer's mark. English merchant, diplomat, and writer. First to introduce a printing press into England, in 1476, and first English printer and retailer of printed books. Original plate by Bagford. Copperplate engraving from Samuel Woodburns Gallery of Rare Portraits Consisting of Original Plates, George Jones, 102 St Martins Lane, London, 1816.

Gregor XIII., papa .

Bineburg, Konrad Freiherr.

Michael II, Prince of Wallachia.

Fox, Leonhard Stecher: Boissard, RobertStecher: Bry, Theodor Dedation: 1597/1509

Portrait of Jacob Milich, Robert Boissard, 1597 - 1599 print Rechts under numbered MM2. France paper engraving historical persons. book

Portrait of PETRV Martyr

Wolfgang Lazius. Lithograph by A. Camesina after H. S. Lautensack, 1558.

Moritz, Elector of Saxony 1586 / presumably 1650

Bildnis des Andrew Alciatus

Pole, Reginald .

DOMENICO BECCAFUMI Italian painter and sculptor Date: 1486 - 1551

Musculus, Wolfgang Stecher: Bry, Johann Theodor Dedation: 1597/1599

Musso, Cornelius.

Portret Van Matthias Flacius, Robert Boissard, 1597 - 1599 print France paper engraving / letterpress printing historical persons. book

Portrait of Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Crispijn van den Queborn, H. Jacobsen, 1623.

Saint-Gelais, Mellin de.

SIGISMUND II OF POLAND (Polish : Zygmunt) Date: 1520 - 1572

Bildnis des modestinus baker

Muenster, Sebastian.

Gauaico, Lucico loss: Ammon, John, John, Joh, John Theodor Derense Device: Frankfurt (Mainfurt (Mainfurt (Mainfurt

Hairs, peter von.

Curio adopt Secondly Stecher: Bry, Theodor deStecher: Boissard RobertDatierung: 1597/1599

Stephanus, Robert Publisher: Desrochers, Etiennadattung: 1701 / 1741Factible genesis: Paris

France, Boissard, Robert, Series of portraits of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century scholars, Hartmannus Beyerus theologus & mathemat, Portrait of Hartmann Beyer, verso - stamped, print, book illustration, prints, height 139 mm, width 107 mm, 1570 - 1611, print maker, printmaker, 1597 - 1599, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), letterpress printing

Giunio Paolo Crasso. Line engraving, 1688.

Portret van Girolamo Fracastoro, Theodor de Bry, after Jean Jacques Boissard, 1669 print Portrait of the humanistic philosopher and doctor Girolamo Fracastoro, in oval with edge. Under the portrait a Latin verse. Frankfurt am Main paper engraving

Sulon, Simon Stecher: Bry, Theodor Dest Morecher: Boyceard, Robertherausgeber: BOISSARD, Jean-Jacquesdruckort: Frankfurt (Main)

Zrínyi, Miklos Graf Stecher: Blaschke, Jánosdationierung: 1785 / 1833Verlagort:

Portrait of Philip II, King of Spain, Antonie Wierix (II), 1599 - 1604 print Portrait of Philip II, King of Spain. He is wearing a ribbon with the order of the Golden Fleece. In the cartouche under his portrait a six -line poem, in three columns, in Latin. Antwerp paper engraving knighthood order of the Golden Fleece

Bildnis Des Elius Eobanus

unknown, The Hague, Hondius, Hendrick (I), Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies, Cornelius Ketel, Goudanus., Portrait of Cornelis Ketel, center bottom margin - engraved, Half-length portrait to the left of Cornelis Ketel. Below the portrait his name and four lines in Latin. Print from part 3 of the series Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies. Series of 72 artists' portraits made by Hendrick Hondius I, Simon Frisius, Andries Jacobsz. Stock and Robert de Baudous., print, prints, Hh exc., top left - engraved, Cum privil., center bottom in the margin - CORNELIUS KETEL, GOUDANUS, Primus hic a...hic finxerat ingenio., height 211 mm, width 119 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1573-06-09 - 1650-10-25, print maker, printmaker, 1610 - 1610, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher, uitgever van privilege

Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician, poet and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy 1476-1553. Hieronimus Fracastorius. Copperplate engraving by Johann Theodore de Bry from Jean-Jacques Boissards Bibliotheca Chalcographica, Johann Ammonius, Frankfurt, 1650.

Artist: Heinrich Aldegrever, Germany, 1502-1555/61, Self-Portrait at the Age of35, Engraving, sheet: 18 × 11.8 cm (7 1/16 × 4 5/8in.), Made in Germany, German, 16thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

Bethlen of Iktar, Gabriel.

Emperor Charles V. Barthel Beham; German, 1502-1540. Date: 1531. Dimensions: 206 x 135 (image/plate); 211 x 138 mm (sheet). Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Albrecht I, Duke of Bavaria.

Portrait van Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs, Robert Boissard, 1597 - 1599 print At the bottom right Numbered ZZ.4. France paper engraving historical persons. book. insects: grass-hopper - FF - fabulous animals (sometimes wrongly called 'grotesques'; 'Mostri' (Ripa)

Toschi, Domenico.

King John III of Portugal, 1502 - 1557, (in Portuguese João III). He was nicknamed The Pious. After a 16th century work by Frans Huys.

Portrait of Iohann Georg from Arnheimb

Fabricius, Gabriel.

. Bust to the right of Pierre Viret. Under the portrait his name and four rules in Latin. Print out (part 1 of) the series of portraits of famous reformers.

From Bellay, Jean.

Portret Van Antonio Gondi, Louis Moreau, 1722 - 1800 print paper engraving historical persons. banker

Pietro Andrea Mattioli. Line engraving by C. Faucci after L. Feliciati.

PortraT van Skanderberg, Anonymous, after Tobias Stimmer, 1549 - 1575 print Print is part of an album. paper historical persons. commander-in-chief, general, marshal

Gualterus, Rudolf 1651 / 1725

Column, Stefano.

Gresham, Thomas .

Portrait of Pietro Aretino(1492-1556). Engraver: Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian, ca. 1480-ca. 1534

Johann Aventinus (Johann Turmair). Dated: 1554. Dimensions: image: 18.3 x 16.4 cm (7 3/16 x 6 7/16 in.). Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Hanns Lautensack.

Hobson, Thomas .

Karl IX., King of France Unknown artist dating: 1601/1750

Portrait of humanist and diplomat Gian Giorgio Trissino, print maker: Giuseppe Benaglia, (mentioned on object), Italy, 1806 - 1830, paper, engraving, h 147 mm × w 102 mm

Amsterdam, Houbraken, Jacob, Mr. Willem Bardesius, Portrait of Willem Bardes, verso - stamped, Bust to the left of Willem Bardes in an oval medallion. Below the portrait name and details in three lines in Dutch., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 184 mm, width 120 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1698-12-25 - 1780-11-14, print maker, printmaker, 1749 - 1759, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Florence III., Count of Holland Stecher: Verscher, Cornelisdation: 1640 / 1662Factive genesis:

Portrait of King Emanuel I of Portugal Kings and princes of Portugal , print maker: Cornelis Galle (I), print maker: Cornelis Galle (II), (rejected attribution), print maker: Southern Netherlands, print maker: Antwerp, 1621, paper, engraving, h 190 mm × w 132 mm

Tycho Brahe 1546 to 1601 Danish astronomer and alchemist after an engraving by Gheyn late 1600s From Science and Literature in The Middle Ages by Paul Lacroix published London 1878

Imhof, Andreas Stecher: Leonard, Johann Friedrich

Spelman, Henry .

Oecolampad, Johannes 1650 / presumably 1686

Fox, Leonhard printer: Plantin, Christoph

Doria, Andrea.

Buoso da Dovara.

Castiglione, Baldassare Laterra: edelinck, nicolas Etienne

Portrait of Aristotle; Illustration Philosophorum et Petarum Effigies; Portraits of Greek and Roman philosophers and writers.

Sartorius, John.

Boissard, Jean Jacques, Frankfurt am Main, Bry, Theodor de, Hieronymus Wolffius, Portrait of Hieronymus Wolf, verso - stamped, Portrait of the librarian Hieronymus Wolf, in oval with inscription in the margin. Below the portrait a poem of praise., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, height 140 mm, width 100 mm, South Netherlands, 1528 - 1598-03-27, print maker, printmaker, 1597 - 1599, paper, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1528 - 1598, after a design by, 1669 - 1669

Hohman, Joachim .

Portrait of the Iohnnes Sartorive

Bird, Paul.

Friedrich I, Elector of Brandenburg.

Stubenberg, Friedrich (III.) Lord.

Portrait of Ibrahim I, Sultan of Turkey, print maker: Johann Alexander Böner, Neurenberg, 1674, paper, engraving, h 239 mm - w 159 mm

Portrait of Caspar Bauhin Casparus Bauhinus , print maker: Peter Aubry (II), (mentioned on object), publisher: Johann König (uitgever), print maker: Straatsburg, publisher: Bazel, 1674, paper, engraving, letterpress printing, h 274 mm × w 191 mm

Hans Lautensack's 'Aventinus' (Johannes Turmair) (1554) is a wood engraving depicting the Bavarian historian Aventinus with detailed facial features, attire, and attributes symbolizing scholarship.

Babington, Gervase 1610 / 1700

ZiZka of Trocnov, Jan.

Alexander Bannerman, ca. 1730-1780, John Mabuse, undated. Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Attributed to Renold Elstrack, 1570-1625(), British, Henry IV, 1618 or 1628. Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount.

Portret Van Matthias Flacius, Robert Boissard, 1597 - 1599 print Numbered Q3 at the bottom. France paper engraving historical persons. book

Henry IV, Attributed to Renold Elstrack, 1570-1625(), British, Published by Compton Holland, active 1616-d.1621, British, 1618 or 1628, Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount, Sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches (17.5 x 11.5 cm), Plate: 6 3/4 x 4 7/16 inches (17.2 x 11.2 cm), and Image: 5 9/16 x 4 3/16 inches (14.2 x 10.7 cm), beard, cartouche, coat of arms, costume, crest, crowns, embroidery, ermine, headdress, illustration, jewels, king (person), livery collar, man, mustache, orb, oval, pendant, portrait, robe, royalty, scepter

View of a building near Naples Vue prise aux environs de Naples Faces in Italy

Urban 8

Portret Van Janus Cornarius, Robert Boissard, 1597 - 1599 print Numbered L14 at the bottom right. France paper engraving historical persons

Lombardi, Alfonso.

Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556), Marc Antonio Raimondi, Italian, 1483 - 1527, Titian, Italian, ca. 1488 - 1576, Engraving on paper, Bust-length portrait, shown almost full-face, turned slightly to the left. He wears a hat which is tipped down over his right ear., Italy, 1517-1520, portraits, Print, Print

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