Accession number
PML198990.13
Creator
Baillie, William, 1723-1810, engraver.
Published
Great Britain, 1774 June 17
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Engraved by Captain William Baillie after the painting "The philosopher Heraclitus" ("Der Philosoph Heraklit") by Gerard ter Borch, currently in the collection of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Köln.
Forms part of a collection of 20 prints by Captain William Baillie, with a title page hand lettered in ink: Collection of prints and etchings by William Baillie & others.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Engraved by Captain William Baillie after the painting "The philosopher Heraclitus" ("Der Philosoph Heraklit") by Gerard ter Borch, currently in the collection of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Köln.
Forms part of a collection of 20 prints by Captain William Baillie, with a title page hand lettered in ink: Collection of prints and etchings by William Baillie & others.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 268 x 220 mm; sheet: 286 x 227 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "The Geographer" in pencil at lower left.
Summary
The astrologer; a man seated at a table, right hand on an open book, leaning his chin on his left hand, with a globe beside him, wearing a cap and heavy, tattered gown with braiding at the sleeves, over a white shirt with broad sleeves.
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