The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...
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- The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...
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- 1694.
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"The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57086.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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[illustration] portrait of Adam Elshamer
28 ADAM ELSHEIMER 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Natij de Francfort en lan 1574 filid un Tajleur, faisoit son apren∣tisage a Francfart Che•• Philippe Oudenbach ••••gran deseignatour, et tres bon painctre, neaumoins Surpassoit son maistre de beaucoup, estoit d'un Hu∣meur melancolique, se treuent ordinairement dans les Eglises, ou en quel∣que Viele Ruine, excrsent de la facon, son estude, on troue peu de ses aeuures mais ex••rementent labourées auecque vne grande farce et d'un dium entendement, Il a peu dessaingue, mais tenant ••u grandmaistre, Touchard sa vie at aste de peu de 〈◊〉〈◊〉, niouru•• youre, laissent per le monde vne Renomée, qui durer•• a jamais:
W. Hollar fecit. ••••oysens pinxit et excudit,