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Historical Portraits of Scholars

A collection of engraved portraits featuring bearded scholars in traditional attire, showcasing intricate details and Moody monochrome tones from various time periods.

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Silver stroke, Georg.Portret Van Niccolo Beltramini, Francesco Allegrini, After Giuliano Traballesi, 1764 print Portrait of lawyer Niccolo Beltramini. Under the portrait a text in Italian and a coat of arms in a circular frame. Italy paper engraving historical personsMan with beard and fur hat. Artist: Govert Flinck (possibly). Draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn (school of). Dating: 1625 - 1710. Measurements: h 232 mm × w 187 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Juan Antonio Salvador Carmona (Engraver); Calcografía Nacional (Printer) / 'Saint Barnabas'. 1789 - 1795. Etching, Burin on continuous paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.LEONARDO DA VINCI Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and scientist. Date: 1452 - 1519Swalmius, Eleazar.Portrait of Reinier Wybrands Wybma, Baptist minister, print maker: Salomon Savery, (mentioned on object), Jacob Adriaensz. Backer, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1627 - 1665, paper, engraving, h 267 mm × w 185 mmPortrait of Bindo Altoviti, Wenceslaus Hollar, After Titian, 1649 - 1651 print Portrait of the Italian banker and art collector Bindo Altoviti. paper etchingPortrait of Eleazar Swalmius, Jonas Suyderhoef, After Rembrandt van Rijn, 1657 - 1675 print Portrait of Eleazar Swalmius, pastor in Amsterdam, sitting in an arm chair. At the bottom of the margin a six -line verse in Dutch. paper engraving functionaries and dignitaries ~ Protestant churchesRembrandt's Father Artist's working dates 1730-1765 Ireland. Mezzotint in black on paper . James MacArdellSocrates.Portret van John Ulmaeus, Michel Lasne, 1625 - 1667 print paper engraving / etching historical personsCranach, Lukas Stecher: Bitthäuser, Johann PleikardDation: 1820/1850H. Hieronymus, Cornelis Galle (I), after Anthony van Dyck, c. 1630 - 1650 print The saint Hieronymus in the wilderness, reading in a book. Hieronymus leans on a pile of books and points his finger on the spot in a book he has just read. A crucifix is standing next to him on the table. Southern Netherlands paper engraving St. Jerome as hermit in a landscape, readingLeonardo da Vinci .Buste of an old man with beard, Hendrik Dethier, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633 print Bust of an old man with beard to the left. Netherlands paper etching old man. beardStrabo .Spanish Crown, Vorsterman, Lucas (I), Rubens, Peter Paul, Antwerp, Antique busts, Bust of Plato, verso lower left - stamped, Bust of Plato. Print from a series of twelve prints with antique busts, four of which by Lucas Vorsterman I and eight by Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert., print, prent, prints, height 291 mm, width 190 mm, South Netherlands, 1595 - 1675, print maker, printmaker, 1630 - 1638, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1577-06-28 - 1640-05-30, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, after an image by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, granter of privilegeSaint Paul, Seated. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: after Jacques Callot.Portrait of Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, Anonymous, After Jan Harmensz. Muller, after Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, 1590 - 1678 print Portrait of learned, writer and artist Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert with a hat on his head. Netherlands paper engraving portrait of a writerPortrait of Hendrick Goltzius. Design for a print.Old man with beret and beard, Christian Gottfried Schultze, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1770 print Paris paper. etching old man'Portrait and Autograph of John Knox', c1550-1560, (1890). Creator: Unknown.Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of Pietro Bembo, 1470 - 1547, an Italian humanist scholar and CardinalWładysław Jagiełło (1351 1434) King of Poland, The Grand Duke of Lithuania Tomaszewski, A.Wizard .JOHN WYCLIF.Strabo .Hals, Frans, Haarlem, Suyderhoef, Jonas, Portret van Hendrick Swalmius, verso - stamped, preacher in Haarlem, sitting with a bible in his hand. At the bottom in the margin an eight-line verse in Dutch., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 317 mm, width 227 mm, 1613 - 1686-05-09, print maker, printmaker, 1639 - 1686, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1583 - 1666-08-26Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. 1801 - 1833. Morghen, Raffaello, 1761-1833. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print CollectionROMULUS, legendary founder of Rome (753 BC) with his brother Remus whom he killed, and its first king Date: 8th century BCJacques Cujas (1522-1590). French jurist. Portrait. Engraving. Sciences & Lettres au Moyen Age et à l'époque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1877.'Thomas Parr, Who died at the Age of 152 Years', 1821. Creator: R Page.Historic print, woodcut with autograph, 1607, portrait by Johann Baptist Fischart, 1546 - 1591, an early Modern High German writer, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur, an illustrated atlas by Gustav Koennecke, 1887Portrait of Nestor Chronicler by Anonymous artist, Lithograph, 1821, Russia, Moscow, Russian State Library,Galileo Galilei, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes 1888 Issued by Allen & Ginter American Printer's samples for the collector's album "World's Inventors" (A25), issued in 1888 to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Citing Burdick's "The American Card Catalog": "Souvenir albums of this type, as issued by the tobacco companies, were probably intended to replace the individual cards if the smoker so desired, or at least enable him to own the entire collection of designs without the difficulty attendant to obtaining all the individual cards in a set. Later, their popularity induced the tobacco companies to publish a few albums that had no card counterparts. All were given in exchange for coupons packed with the cigarettes, usually 75 or 100 coupons for each album...All date in the 1888-1890 period." This series depicting inventors was never issued as individual cards and only released in album form. However, this set of printKnox, John .Pythagoras of Samos (570 BC-495 BC). Ionic Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Portrait. Engraving.DIOSCORIDES Greek naturalist Date: 1st century BCSaint Andrew. Dated: probably 1589. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Hendrik Goltzius.Portrait of Michelangelo, 1768 - 1775 print Print is part of an album. paper engraving historical persons. portrait, self-portrait of painterSocrates.George Chapman (1559-1634), writer and translator. He is best known for his translations of Homer. Date: 1559 - 1634Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640 print paper counterproof / drypoint / etching head-gear (with NAME)Nicomachus of Gerasa. Line engraving by D. Cunego, 1785, after A. R. Mengs after Raphael.Oude man, Abraham Delfos, After Pellegrini, 1741 - 1820 drawing parchment (animal material). chalkSir Gawin Carew. Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, 1727-1815); after Hans Holbein the younger (German, 1497-1543). Date: 1796. Dimensions: 286 x 218 mm (image); 329 x 275 mm (plate); 470 x 343 mm (sheet). Stipple engraving on ivory wove paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Portrait of Adam van Noort, Anthony Van Dyck, 1630 - 1632 print paper etching / engraving portrait, self-portrait of painterGalileo Galilei, 15 February 1564, 8 January 1642 was an Italian polymath, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th century originalPortrait of the Alfonso de AlbuquerqueGeorg Brankovic, vintage engraving. Georg Brankovic, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679327Numa Pompilius, King of Rome.Sir Gawin Carew 1796 Italy. Stipple engraving on ivory wove paper . Francesco BartolozziJohn Knox copy of a painting; A. Elliott (Scottish, active 1860s); 1870 - 1875; Albumen silver printTitian, approx. 1488/90-1576. Italian painter, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date not stated,Bustes Van Antishenes en Cleisthenes, Theodor Matham, 1640 print Two busts of philosophers. Above the bust of AntiThenes and below from Cleishenes. On both busts the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print from a publication with reproduction prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome. paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculptureTilesius-Tilenau, Nathanael von .Leonardo da Vinci .Male, König.España. Edad media. Alfonso VII (1105-1157), emperador, rey de Castilla y de León del 1126 al 1157.Mehemet Ali, 1769 - 1849, viceroy of Egypt, historical woodcut, circa 1880'James T Fields', c19th century Artist: UnknownMICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI DI LODOVICO SIMONI Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet Date: 1475 - 1564Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) was anoutstanding artist of German Renaissance. He spent early half of life in Basel, where he was friends with Erasmus, whose Praise of Folly he iillustrated and of whom he painted many portraits. He became painter to Henry VIII in 1535. Among his best paintings are George Gisze, The Ambassadors, Portrait of a Man, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Erasmus, Sir Richard Southwell, and Sir Henry Wyatt.Calvin, Johann Lithograph: Ermini, Pietro Shop: Jagmannnnnn, FAILHINANCE, FERTINAND: 1799/1804Komensky, Jan Amos Draftsman: Kleinhard, Johannstecher: Balzer, Johann GeorgArchimedes, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes 1888 Issued by Allen & Ginter American Printer's samples for the collector's album "World's Inventors" (A25), issued in 1888 to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Citing Burdick's "The American Card Catalog": "Souvenir albums of this type, as issued by the tobacco companies, were probably intended to replace the individual cards if the smoker so desired, or at least enable him to own the entire collection of designs without the difficulty attendant to obtaining all the individual cards in a set. Later, their popularity induced the tobacco companies to publish a few albums that had no card counterparts. All were given in exchange for coupons packed with the cigarettes, usually 75 or 100 coupons for each album...All date in the 1888-1890 period." This series depicting inventors was never issued as individual cards and only released in album form. However, this set of printer's Zenon of Kun.