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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
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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Subjects (general)
Another Work Portraits
Subjects (specific)
coats of arms half figures mantles (outerwear) men (male humans) prince-electors rulers (people) swords