Classical Portrait Engravings

A collection of copperplate engravings featuring distinguished figures from antiquity and the Renaissance, showcasing detailed portraits and rich historical context.

Westerbaen, Jacob, Vliet, Jan van, Jemaar, The Hague, Philippe, Pieter, Portrait of Pieter Adriaansz. van der Werff, verso left - stamped, mayor of Leiden. Around his neck he wears a ribbon with a Leiden emergency coin, from the time of the Spanish siege., print, prints, height 392 mm, width 272 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1635 - 1702, print maker, printmaker, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), calligrapher, 1622 - 1666-03-18, writer, Dutch, 1599-09-07 - 1670-03-31

Socrates, Greek philosopher and founder of Western philosophy, c.470399 BC. Head of an old bald man with beard from a carnelian gem. Copperplate engraving by Joseph Testana after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio deLazari, Rome, 1699.

Polyngotos of Thasos.

Westerbaen, Jacob, Vliet, Jan van, Jemaar, The Hague, Philippe, Pieter, Portrait of Pieter Adriaansz. van der Werff, verso left - stamped, mayor of Leiden. Around his neck he wears a ribbon with a Leiden emergency coin, from the time of the Spanish siege., print, prints, height 392 mm, width 272 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1635 - 1702, print maker, printmaker, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), calligrapher, 1622 - 1666-03-18, writer, Dutch, 1599-09-07 - 1670-03-31

Michelangelo Buonarroti 1601/1700

Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon Stecher: Goltzius, Hendrick

Bust of an old man with beard. .

Bust of a man with curly hair and beard, print maker: Jacobus Buys, (mentioned on object), anonymous, Amsterdam, c. 1740 - c. 1801, paper, etching, h 100 mm × w 70 mm

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.

Demetrios von Phaleron .

Michelangelo Buonarroti .

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.

Socrates Eraser: Important, Andreas Leonhard

Saint Simon seen from behind, turning to the right and holding a saw, in an oval frame, from Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles. Artist: After Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575-1642 Bologna); Anonymous, 17th century. Dimensions: Sheet: 3 3/4 x 2 15/16 in. (9.5 x 7.5 cm). Series/Portfolio: Christ, the Virgin and Thirteen Apostles. Date: 1600-1640.From Christ, the Virgin and Thirteen Apostles, a series of fifteen busts in oval frames printed from one plate, after Reni. Verso not visible as print is affixed to another sheet of paper. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Zaleucus 7th century BC Greek lawgiver of Epizephyrian Locri in Italy Deviser of the first written Greek law code named the Locrian code From the book Crabbs Historical Dictionary published 1825

Portrait Bust ofSophocles. Artist, attributed to: Jan de Bisschop, Dutch, 1628-1671

Callimachus .

Nikias .

Portrait of the Italian artist Giulio Romano, Portrait of Giulio Romano Portraits of Italian artists , print maker: Isaac Lodewijk la Fargue van Nieuwland, (mentioned on object), 1752, paper, etching, h 88 mm - w 60 mm

Berengar of Friuli, Roman Emperor.

Demosthenes Stecher: Withouck, HeyndrickZeichner: Rubens, Peter Paul

Academy study on plaster of antique bust of a man, draughtsman: Johannes Tavenraat, anonymous, 1819 - 1881, paper, h 460 mm × w 380 mm

Anacreon .

$Bust of an apostle in profile to the right, Theodorus van Kessel, after Anthony Van Dyck, 1630 - 1660 print Bust of an apostle in profile to the right, with his head bent down a fraction. This print is part of a seven -part series about different apostles. paper engraving (single) apostle, unspecified$

Possible design for a print, Oval portrait of a Batavier, draughtsman: Jacques Kuyper, 1771 - 1808, paper, pen, brush, h 39 mm × w 32 mm

Etching by Domenico Cunego showing the head of Aristotle in the School of Athens, created in 1783, illustrating Renaissance representation of classical philosophy figures.

Antwerp, Galle, Theodoor, Straet, Jan van der, Cornelis (I), Icones Prophetarum Veteris Testamenti, Joël, The prophet Joël with beard and headband around his head, in oval with Latin inscription., print, prints, height 175 mm, width 135 mm, Southern Netherlands, 1576 - 1650-03-29, print maker, printmaker, 1613 - 1613, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1523 - 1605-11-02, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1571 - 1633, publisher

Poseidonios by Rhodes.

Nanni d'Antonio di Banco.

etienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin, 1532-1573. French dramatist and poet. From Science and Literature in The Middle Ages by Paul Lacroix published London 1878

Portrait of Adam van Noort, Anthony Van Dyck, 1630 - 1632 print paper etching / engraving portrait, self-portrait of painter

Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert (1522-29 October 1590) was a Dutch poet, scholar, politician and artist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a prehistoric original

Coornhert, Dirck Volckertson.

Gad, Cornelis Galle (I), After Jan van der Straet, 1613 print The Prophet Gad in a Roman robe, in oval with Latin edge. Antwerp paper engraving (single) prophet, unspecified

Haarlem, Goltzius, Hendrick, Portrait of Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, top center in cartouche - engraved, Portrait in oval of the humanist and artist Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert (1522-1590), with ornamental frame (printed from a separate plate). Inscription in Dutch and caption in Latin in the ornamental frame. Inscription in Latin around the portrait, mentioning Coornhert's years of birth and death, and the fact that Goltzius depicted him from life., print, prints, engravings, verso lower right - stamped, THEODORUS CORNHERTIUS...Ab. H. GOLTZIO, above, in the edge - engraved, Natus ...Goudae A o, below, Weet of rust, height 518 mm, width 410 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1558-01 - 1617-01-01, print maker, printmaker, 1591 - 1592, fourth quarter 16th century, fourth quarter of the 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Northern Netherlands, after own design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Thales of Milet.

Michelangelo Buonarroti 1667/1766

Bustes of Homer and Pindarus; Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani II. Bustes of the philosophers Homer and peanutarus. On the busts the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.

Kop of a thinking man with beard, Dirck Pietersz. Crabeth (attributed to), 1511 - 1577 drawing paper. chalk

Frangipani, Cornelio .

Breck ou DuBepucq (Hutttein 50) Antoine Van Dyck (1599-1641). BREUK or DUBROECQ (Hollstein 50). Water-strong on paper, Burin, 1634-1636.

Portrait of poet Antonio Tebaldeo Portraits after Raphael , print maker: Pietro Ghigi, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Luigi Agricola, (mentioned on object), Rafaël, (mentioned on object), print maker: Italy, intermediary draughtsman: Italy, Vaticaanstad, publisher: Rome, 1805, paper, engraving, h 351 mm × w 270 mm

Portrait of Alcibiades, Athenian politician and general, Portrait of Alcibiades, print maker: Willem van Senus, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Day, (mentioned on object), Netherlands, 1783 - 1851, paper, etching, engraving, h 223 mm × w 137 mm

Heinrich V., Roman-German Kaiser.

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor.

Portrait of songwriter Pier Francesco Giambulpari; Portraits of writers writing songs for Lorenzo de'Medici. Numbered at the top right: p. 198.

Socrates born circa 469 BC died 399 BC. Classical Greek philosopher. From the book Crabbes Historical Dictionary published 1825.

Study of a head of an old man, Leonard Schenk (Rejected Attribution), 1710 - 1767 print Study of a head of an old man, a farmer (), Three quarters to the left with beard and hat. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving head (human) (+ three-quarter view). old man. head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes)

Piso Cnacus Calpumius.

Homer,c.900 BC- c.850 BC. Ancient Greek poet.Engraved by J.W.Cook.

Euclid. Line engraving.

Portrait of the LVCIV Annevs Seneqve

Theophrastus, 372BC-287BC. Greek philosopher and naturalist. Engraved by J.W.Cook.

Bustes of Hercules and an unknown man; Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani II. Two Roman sculptures. Above a bust of Hercules with the lion skin around the shoulders. Under the bust of a man with beard. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.

Portrait of the architect Jacob de Breuck, Paulus Pontius, after Anthony Van Dyck, 1616 - 1657 print Antwerp paper engraving portrait, self-portrait of architect. compasses

Bust of a man watching right.

Frangipani, Cornelio .

Democritus. Line engraving.

Etching by Domenico Cunego from 1785 showing the head of Diogenes from the School of Athens series, highlighting facial features and expression.

Bootless Peter; S. Pierre. .

Euclid of Megara, Greek socratic philosopher and founder of the Megarian school, c.435-365 BC. Depicted with beard and hood from a bronze medal in the collection of Cardinal Camillo Massimo. Euclide Filosofo Megarese. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio deLazari, Rome, 1699.

Rodriguez de Castelblanco, Johannes.

Demosthenes .

Terence, William.

Zenon of Kun.

Marco Polo (Venice, 1254-1324), Venetian explorer and traveler, engraving.

Pedanios Dioskurides.

Buste van Seneca, Lucas Vorsterman (I), after Peter Paul Rubens, after anonymous, 1638 print Buste of Seneca. Print from a series of twelve prints with antique busts, four of which are by Lucas Vorsterman I and eight by Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert. Antwerp paper engraving (story of) Seneca. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Hippocrates of Kos ( c. 460 - c. 370 BCE), was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the 'Father of Western Medicine' in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields with which it had traditionally been associated (theurgy and philosophy), thus establishing medicine as a profession.

EURIPIDES Greek playwright Date: 5th Century BC

Pittakos.

Two portrait busts, 1636 - 1647 print Two Roman portrait busts. At the bottom of the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome. paper engraving male persons from classical history (+ head, bust, etc.). piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Portrait of Joost van den Vondel(1587-1679). Artist: Jan Lutma The Younger, Dutch, 1624-1689

Copper engraving by Lucas Vorsterman showing portraits of the Greek philosopher Democritus and the physician Hippocrates, emphasizing facial features and historical attire.

Portret van Koning Bergenius, Dominique Sornique, 1755 - 1756 print Paris paper engraving / etching king. historical persons

Amerigo Vespucci, nobile fiorentino discopritore dell'America.. Traballesi, Giuliano (1727-1812). Prints. 1777 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512, Explorers , Italian

Power, Adam.

Terence, William.

Etching by Domenico Cunego showing the head of Empedocles from the School of Athens, created in 1785.

Bust of a man en face, with hair parted in the middle and a short beard and gags. He has the eyes turned to the left. His clothing is fringed with fur., Bust of a man with hair band, print maker: Samuel van Hoogstraten, (possibly), 1648 - 1678, paper, etching, h 88 mm × w 57 mm

Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1845.

Sir James Mackintosh. Mezzotint by C. Turner after H. B. Burlowe, 1833.

Leodam.

Socrates.

Eratosthenes .

Socrates.

ALCIBIADES Greek soldier and statesman Date: 450 - 404 BC

Zenon of Kun.

Titus Tatius, king of the Sabines from Cures and joint-ruler of Rome with Romulus for several years, according to the Roman foundation myth. T. Tatius. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoors Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.

Socrates.

Sculpture of the head of Laocon. Based on the central figure of the sculpture 'Laocon Group' in Rome, Head of Laocon Studies for a book of drawings after classical sculptures and figures by Anthony van Dyck (series title), print maker: Augustinus Terwesten (I), (mentioned on object), Rome, 1672 - 1711, paper, etching, h 163 mm × w 114 mm

Aeschines- 389 - 314 BC, was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators / Aischines, 390/389 v. Chr. - 314 v. Chr., war ein Redner und Politiker in Athen, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

'Aesop', (c620-564 BC), 1830. Aesop (c620-564 BC) a slave and fabulist storyteller in Ancient Greece credited with tales collectively known as Aesop's Fables. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830

Titus Tatius, legendary Sabine king who ruled with Romulus, the founder of Rome. Tatius Sabinus Rex. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his LAcademia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

Bed, Guillaume 1701/1800

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