Nicolaus Copernicus. Line engraving by C.B. after the Comte de Caylus.

  • Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765.
Date:
[between 1755 and 1765]
Reference:
2063i
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Publication/Creation

A Paris (quai de l'Ecole vis à vis la Samarit. à la belle image) : chés Odieuvre m.d d'estampes C.P.D.R., [between 1755 and 1765]

Physical description

1 print : engraving

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/51/55

Lettering

Nicolas Copernic. ... A.C. pinx. ; C.B. sculp.

Creator/production credits

The engraver C.B. has not been identified with any of the numerous artists using the same monogram recorded by G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, Munich 1860, vol. 1, pp. 955-981

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 673.1
Andreas Kühne, Stefan Kirschner, and Gudula Metze, Biographia Copernicana: Die Copernicus-Biographien des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, Berlin 2004, p. 376, no. P.39

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Wellcome Collection 2063i

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