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Erasmus Rotterdm [sic] / W. Vaillant fec. et ex. – Vintage Print

Erasmus Rotterdm [sic] / W. Vaillant fec. et ex., [between 1650 and 1677] — historic print
Erasmus Rotterdm [sic] / W. Vaillant fec. et ex., [between 1650 and 1677]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The sitter is Desiderius Erasmus, the scholar born in Rotterdam, though the title misspells the city as "Rotterdm." Erasmus, who died in 1536, was among the most influential humanists of the Renaissance, known for his Latin writings and his 1516 edition of the Greek New Testament. This portrait was engraved by Wallerant Vaillant, a Netherlandish printmaker, sometime between 1650 and 1677, when the mezzotint process, which builds tone by scraping a roughened copper plate, was still relatively new and valued for its soft gradations.

Created / published[between 1650 and 1677]
Medium1 print : mezzotint.
GenrePortrait prints 1650-1680.Mezzotints 1650-1680.
SubjectsErasmus, Desiderius,--d. 1536.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,100 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-199166

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