Bernhard Verzascha. Line engraving by B. Kilian, 1678, after M. Merian the younger.

  • Merian, Matthaeus, 1621-1687.
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1678
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9395i
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Bernhard Verzascha. Line engraving by B. Kilian, 1678, after M. Merian the younger. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1678

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1 print : engraving

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Bernhardus Verzascha, diversorum s. r. i. principum ac reipublicae basileensis archiater huiusque scholarcha et senator. MF. B. Kilian sculp. a(nn)o 1678. Bears monogram: MF, recorded by Nagler, loc. cit. on the present portrait, as an undeciphered monogram

References note

G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, Munich 1871, vol. IV, p. 557, no. 1781
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 3050.1

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Wellcome Collection 9395i

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Burgess (loc. cit.) records Mathäus Merian (1593-1650) as the artist "M", but he died before the present sitter was born. Attributed therefore to Mathäus Merian the younger (1621-1687), who was also active in Basel and was the teacher of Bartholomäus Kilian

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