Joâo Curvo Semmedo. Line engraving by A. van Westerhout, 1705, after F. da Costa.
- Costa, Felix da, 1639-1712.
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- 1705
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- 8495i
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1705
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Ioam Curvo Semmedo medico Lisbonense familiar do Santo Officio. … Felix da Costa pinx. Andreas Anton.s Oratii Romanus ornavit. Arnoldus van Westerhout Ferd. Mag. Princ. Etruriae sculptor fecit Romae sup. perm. 1705.
Latin couplets beneath the portrait: Ad Curvi effigiem pavet horrida Mortis imago, / Semmedo orbi pellit ab orbe metum. / Ille dies hominum longos protendit in annos, / Hinc Curvi nomen curva senecta tenet.
References note
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2695.2
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