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[Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, half-length portrait, seated at desk] – Vintage Photo Print

[Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, half-length portrait, seated at desk] — historic print
[Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, half-length portrait, seated at desk]. 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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Thomas Hobbes, the English philosopher who wrote "Leviathan" in 1651, is the subject here, shown in a half-length view seated at a desk. The record gives no date for the portrait, so its making can't be pinned down from the caption alone. Hobbes lived from 1588 to 1679 and spent much of his career in the circle of the English aristocracy, producing works on politics, geometry and human nature. Portraits of thinkers like him were often reproduced as engravings for books and collections, so this image may belong to that tradition of printed likenesses.

Medium1 item.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,193 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119216

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