Name: Antique Print - JOHANNES STOFFLER-STOEFFLERI-SCIENCE-PORTRAIT-HOLBEIN after unknown artist - 1534
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Antique Print – JOHANNES STOFFLER-STOEFFLERI-SCIENCE-PORTRAIT-HOLBEIN after unknown artist – 1534

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Effigies Ioannis Stoeffleri (…) – This scarce original antique print depicts a portrait of Johannes Stöffler (also Stöfler, Stoffler, Stoeffler; 1452 – 1531), a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments and professor at the University of Tubingen.

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SKU: pco20190618portraits-20 Category: Portraits-Figures Tag: Portrait

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Effigies Ioannis Stoeffleri (…)

Woodcut on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 17,5 x 26 cm. (6,9 x 10,2 inch). Image size: 9,6 x 16,7 cm. (3,8 x 6,6 inch).

Attributed to Holbein the Younger or an able contemporary. Published in: ‘In Procli Diadochi sphaeram mundi… commentarius.’, by Johann Stoeffler, published in Tübingen: Ulrich Morhard, 1534. Provenance: With a collection mark of Miss D. Wibiral (Lugt 799a), Austrian and Weimar, who passed away c. 1944.

Made by Hans Holbein the Younger after an anonymous artist. Hans Holbein the Younger (ca. 1497-1543) was a reknown German artist. He was active as court artist at the English court. He made many portraits, but also designed jewelry and book illustrations.

Condition: Very good, given age. A few minor spots. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: JOHANNES STOFFLER-STOEFFLERI-SCIENCE-PORTRAIT

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