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Hugo Grotius – Vintage Print

Hugo Grotius, [between 1640 and 1740] — antique engraving
Hugo Grotius, [between 1640 and 1740]. Antique engraving 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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A window into the past: Hugo Grotius, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Hugo Grotius

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Hugo Grotius, the Dutch jurist and humanist born in Delft in 1583, appears in this engraving, which the record dates only to between 1640 and 1740, so it was likely made around or after his death in 1645. The record does not name the engraver, but the print belongs to a wave of portraits that circulated in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when his reputation as a founder of international law was at its height. His 1625 treatise *On the Laws of War and Peace* shaped European thinking about sovereignty and the conduct of war for generations. He also made a dramatic escape from Loevestein Castle in 1621, smuggled out in a book chest, which became one of the best-known episodes of his life.

Created / published[between 1640 and 1740]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenrePortrait prints 1640-1740.Engravings 1640-1740.
SubjectsGrotius, Hugo,--1583-1645.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,280 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-201594

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