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5290141
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DESIDERIUS ERASIMUS ROTERO=DAMUS.
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13,3 x 11,7
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Bust of Erasmus of Rotterdam (ca. 1466 - 1536) writing at a lectern. With edge lettering in the decorative frame with insects, flowers and two putti. Erasmus was a Dutch priest, canon, theologian, philosopher, writer and humanist. Etching by Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623), after Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Published in Frankfurt am Main, in: J.J. Boissard. "Icones virorum illustrium doctrina & c eruditione praestanti um contines". Frankfurt am Main: de Bry, 1597-1599. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2015.

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