Nicolaus Copernicus. Line engraving by M. Deyerl after a design attributed to M. Basaiti, 1512.

  • Basaiti, Marco, approximately 1478-1530.
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A young man holding an armillary sphere in one hand and a pair of compasses in the other. Identity of the man as Copernicus evidently believed by some but doubted by others

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Triest : Verlag der Kunst-Anstalt des Oestr. Lloyd

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1 print

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Nicolaus Copernicus. Nach einem gleichzeitgen Gemälde Basaiti's. M. Deyerl sc.

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 673.15

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2078i

Reproduction note

After: a painting in Lviv National Art Gallery from the collection of Prince Andrzej Lubomirski

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