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Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia

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

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Dominicus Custos

Netherlandish, active in Germany, c. 1550-1612
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