PETRUS SCRIVERIUS Geboren te Haerlem den 12 January 1576. Overleden te Oudeater den 30 April 1660. 

PETRUS SCRIVERIUS Geboren te Haerlem den 12 January 1576. Overleden te Oudeater den 30 April 1660.
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PETRUS SCRIVERIUS Geboren te Haerlem den 12 January 1576. Overleden te Oudeater den 30 April 1660.
PETRUS SCRIVERIUS Geboren te Haerlem den 12 January 1576. Overleden te Oudeater den 30 April 1660.

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LastDodo number
5306547
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
PETRUS SCRIVERIUS Geboren te Haerlem den 12 January 1576. Overleden te Oudeater den 30 April 1660.
Artist
Cornelis Visscher, Jacob Houbraken
Technique
Copper engraving
Year
1738
Print run
Signed
Print signature
Publisher
Dimensions
17,2 x 12,4
Printing office
Theme
Portret
Details

Bust of Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660), Philologist, history writer and poet. Friends with, among others, Janus Dousa and Josephus Justus Scaliger. Scaliger was also his teacher. Scriverius went blind in 1650. Copper engraving by Jacob Houbraken (1698-1780), after a drawing by Cornelis Visscher (1629-1658). Signed in print. Made in Amsterdam in 1738, in "Gedichten van Petrus Scriverius". Source: National Office for Art Historical Documentation, 2015.

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