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Print, Portrait of the Caligrapher Andreas Gulden

This is a Print. It was print maker: Andreas Kohl. It is dated 1653 and we acquired it in 1957. Its medium is engraving on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop.

It is inscribed

At lower margin: "Amicissimo suo, ANDRAE GULDEN, Calligraphiae / peritissimo, Compatri honoratissimo, hanc Ipsius effigiem, aeri / a se incisam, mnemosynon suae vult esse gratitudinis, ob pluri = / ma sibi ab Ipso exhibita officia gratissima."

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Print, Portrait of the Caligrapher Andreas Gulden; Print Maker: Andreas Kohl (German, 1624 - 1657); Germany; engraving on paper; Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop; 1957-162-17

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