Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1630
name: label: Print Maker
content: Lucas Vorsterman, Flemish, 1595 - 1675
label: After
content: Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497/98 – 1543
label: Sitter
content: Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch, ca. 1466 - 1536
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Half-length portrait, turned toward the right, the head shown in three-quarter view. The hands are shown crossed before him. Signed in monogram in plate, lower left: [stylized LV]. Inscriptions in margin below: "DESIDERIVS ERASMVS TOTTERDAMVS ... ergo Numiliter Lucas"; lower left: "Vorsterman sculpter D.D."; center: "Hansus Holbenius pinxit"; lower right: "Cum Privilegye Reg."
place: label: made in
content: Netherlands
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of George Campbell Cooper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1896-3-113
objectType: label: Type
content: portraits
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.2 × 14.5 cm (8 3/8 × 5 11/16 in.)