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Abraham Ortelius

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Item (Accession level)

Date:

ca. 1600

Reference:

Accession number: 1979-055 PIC, 00002, Box number: A258-01

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2909075

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Portraits of Ortelius and Gemma Frisius

Abraham Ortelius
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Date(s):

ca. 1600

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 print / estampe : engraving
Support 25.400 x 17.500
Image 17.500 x 12.200

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Bust length portrait in near profile to the left.

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Artist: Unknown

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed in the plate, recto upper edge of the image: Obit Antuerpias IIII. Kal. Juli cI(?). I(?)xciix. AEt. LxxI.; in the plate, recto l.c. below the image: ABRAHAMVS ORTELIVS; COSMOGRAPHVS REGIVS. / Inventum nuper se iactat Iberus ob orbem: / Ad radium Orteli, sed nihil is ta tuum. / Namque vnâ socias veleremq[?] tabellâ, / Et nouus ingenio est orbis uterq[?] tue. / Ergo orbis matrem si te, Natura, vocamus, / Orbis te, Orteli. quis neget esse patrem? / Nic. Rhedingerus Vratisl.; in the plate l.l.: 45.
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Portraits

SUBJ. - Portrait : Abraham Ortelius - ca. 1600
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Private

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1979-055 PIC

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1979-055 PIC
00002
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]

Box [1979-055]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A258-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1979-55-2 Source: Russborough, Toronto, Ontario.

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