D. Martin Luther ist gebohren zu Eisleben in der Graffschafft Mansfeld, X° 1483 jo Novemb. auch alda seelig gestorben, X° 1546, 18 Februarÿ / Jacob Sandrart sculp: et Excud: Norimberge.

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Jakob von Sandrart
1630-1708
D. Martin Luther ist gebohren zu Eisleben in der Graffschafft Mansfeld, X° 1483 jo Novemb. auch alda seelig gestorben, X° 1546, 18 Februarÿ / Jacob Sandrart sculp: et Excud: Norimberge.
engraving
image: 313 x 212 mm; sheet: 212 x 312 mm
Peel 0005
Published: 
Nuremberg : Jacob Sandrart, [16--]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Watermark: unknown.

Notes: 

Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
12 lines of verse in German engraved under title.
Perhaps part of a series including 0011, although this seems to be a Dutch print.

Summary: 

Commemorative portrait of Martin Luther, shown standing, full-length, in an interior with a desk and chair, a swan standing beside him at left and a large Bible on floor in the foreground at right..

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Century: 
17th century
Classification: 
Print
Department: 
Drawings and Prints