Dominicus Custos
Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia
1569-1611
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Dominicus Custos
Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia
1569-1611
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 155 × 125 mm. (6 1/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4524
Possibly part of Custos' series Atrium Heroicum, a portrait series published in four parts in Augsburg between 1601 and 1604; for comment see BM 1873,0510.2788.
Inscribed: Recto: in plate: in oval around portrait: "SERENISSIMVS SIGISMVNDVS TRANSILVANIÆ VALACHIÆ ET MOLDAVIÆ PRINCEPS"; below portrait: "PRO CHRISTO ET PATRIA"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
Artist
Dominicus Custos
1549–1611
Netherlandish, active in Germany, c. 1550-1612
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