"Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon, bust length in an oval, wearing open shirt."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Philippus Melanthon Germanice dictus Schwartzerd
Description:
Title from text within oval border of image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Sleidanus, J. The general history of the Reformation of the Church ... London : Printed by Edw. Jones for Abel Swall and Henry Bonwicke, 1689., Biographical details etched on tablet beneath image: Natus Brettae, Anno 1497, 17 February, Augustanam Confessionem ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of page number from top edge. Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1868,0808.2442., "Pag. 127"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 101 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Printed by Edw. Jones for Abel Swall and Henry Bonwicke
