Robert Boissard
Portrait of Joannes Draconites
1598
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Robert Boissard
Portrait of Joannes Draconites
1598
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 195 × 154 mm. (7 11/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry G. Burke, Baltimore
Object Number
1979.179
Plate from "Bibliotheca, chalcographica illustrium virtute atque eruditione in tota Europa, clarissimorum virorum theologorum, jurisconsultorum, medicorum, historicorum, geographorum, politicorum, philosophorum, poetarum, musicorum, aliorumque" (Francofurti:impensis Iohannis Ammonij bibliopolæ,1650) by Jean Jacques Boissard
Originally published as Plate XIIII (p. 76), Vol. IV from "Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium doctrina & eruditione præstantium ad vivum effictæ," 4 vols. (Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1597-1599) by Jean Jacques Boissard and Johann Adam Lonicerus.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in plate, at upper left: artist's monogram; in plate, around oval: "IONNES DRACONITES Theol. Nas. Carolostadij in Franconia. Obitj. Witteborgae, Ao. 1566. 18. Aprilis."
