Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 165 × 113 mm. (6 1/2 × 4 7/16 in.)
Plate: 160 × 112 mm. (6 5/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From "Images de divers hommes d'esprit sublime qui par leur art et science..." (Antwerp: J. Meyssens, 1649)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15809
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore
Inscribed: Recto:in image, center in oval frame, in plate "SAPIENS SV= / PERAT ASTRA."; in image, lower center, in plate "NICOLAUS / BRUYANT / ASTROLOGUS ET MATHEMATICUS / ATREBATENSIS / NATUS M.D.LXXII. X APRILIS / DENATUS M.DC.XXXVIII. XII. IUL."; in image, lower left, in plate: "Ant. van Dyck pinxit."; below image, lower center, in plate "P. Pontius Sculpsit"; in image, lower right, in plate "Io. Meyssens excudit." Verso: lower right in graphite "19x25"; lower right in graphite diamond with "3798"
Markings: CM: Reverend J. Burleigh James (Lugt 1425); Claghorn
