Antique Print-SEBALD JUSTINUS BRUGMANS-PHYSICIAN-BIOLOGIST-Hodges-Senus-1829

Subject: Antique print, titled: ‘Sebald Justinus Brugmans.’ – Portrait of the physician and biologist Sebald Justinus Brugmans.

Condition: Good, given age. No margins, foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Engraving on laid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 20.5 x 26.1 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 8.1 x 10.3 inch.

Part Number: 62315

Location: PCO-C2-32

Description: Source unknown, to be determined. Ref: FMP 763.

Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘Willem van Senus’ after ‘Charles Howard Hodges’. Willem van Senus (Utrecht 1773-1851 Aalsmeer) was a Dutch engraver. Many of his works were book illustrations. Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837) was an English painter and engraver. He was probably a student of John Raphael Smith. He worked in Amsterdam and was a very famous portrait painter around 1800. His mezzotint engravings are of very high quality.