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John Frederick the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony

John Frederick the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony
(16th century)

Medium
woodcut

Measurements
11.1 × 8.8 cm (image) 19.8 × 32.2 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bartsch 130 (copy); Hollstein 34 (copy b); The Illustrated Bartsch 130 (vol. CI, p. 423); Hollstein 34, copies a+ b (vol. VI); after Dodgson 20; Schuchardt 171

Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Et patris, & patrui, famam, uirtutibus, æquat, / Qui patris & patrui, nobile nomen habet. / Adſerit, inuicto diuinum pectore uerbum, / Et Muſas omni dexteritate iuuat. / Hinc etiam ad promptos ſtudioum contulit uſus, / Inſpicis hoc præſens quod modo Lector opus.

Accession Number
424B-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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