D. Martin Luther / Lucas Cranach pinx. ; J.E. Haid sculp.

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Johann Elias Haid
1739-1809
D. Martin Luther / Lucas Cranach pinx. ; J.E. Haid sculp.
mezzotint, engraving, and etching
image: 234 x 141 mm; plate mark: 224 x 141 mm; sheet: 317 x 238 mm
Peel 0007
Published: 
Augsberg : [publisher not identified], 1782.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Watermark: unknown.

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Lettered below image: Lucas Cranach pinx 1525 / J.E. Haid Sculp Aug. Vind. 1782.
See also Peel 0008, a companion portrait of Catharina Luther.

Summary: 

Portrait bust of Martin Luther; to the right, looking to the right; in a tondo set into a fictive stone wall, with garlands surrounding. After the 1525 painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

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