Paracelsus Portraits

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1: Monogrammist AH - aetatis 45

Aberle: “IV. Typus”

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1538

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AH

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1821

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Jacob Felsing

from:
Bildnisse der berühmtesten Menschen aller Völker und Zeiten, Zwickau & Leipzig: Gebrüder Schumann 1821, Neunte Suite, No. 108
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1675

“Theophrastus Paracelsus”

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from:
Joachim von Sandrart, Der Teutschen Academie Zweyter Theil, Nürnberg 1675, Buch 2 (italienische Künstler), Tafel L (nach S. 70)

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Engraving

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Carl Mayer

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2: Monogrammist AH - aetatis 47

Aberle: “V. Typus”

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“Aurelius Philippus Theophrastus Paracelsus, alias Bombast ab Hohenheim”

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Georg Paul Busch

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Georg Paul Busch

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Engraving

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1742

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Fortgesetzte Sammlung von alten und neuen theologischen Sachen … auff das Jahr 1742, ed. Carl Ludwig Jacobi, 1742

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Engraving

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“Effigies Au. Ph. Theophrasti Paracelsi aet. suae 47”

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1590

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Tobias Stimmer

from:
Nicolaus Reusner, Icones sive imagines virorum literis illustrium, Straßburg 1590

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from:
Nicolaus Reusner, Contrafacturbuch, Straßburg: Bernhard Jobin 1587

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from:
Gottfried Arnold, Historie der kerken en ketteren ... tweede deel, Amsterdam: Sebastian Petzold 1701, facing p. 585
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1688

“Theophrastus Paracelsus Medicus famigeratiss.”

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Artist:

[Johann Franck]

Description: bust-length, directed slightly to left, looking towards the viewer

Inscriptions: Theophrastus Paracelsus Medicus famigeratiss.

from:
Paul Freher, Theatrum virorum eruditione clarorum, Nürnberg 1688

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2: unsorted

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3: With Fur Hat

Aberle: “II. Typus”

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• Aberle 28, 1888, 292-293 n° 7

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Artists:

Wenzel Hollar

Peter Stent

Inscriptions: EFFIGIES PARASELCI MEDICI CELEBERRIMI ‖ [Latin poem, 8 lines] ‖ P. P. Rub. pinxit / PStent Excud: ‖ Sould by John Ouerton at the rohite horse neere the fountaine tauen without Newgate / W. Hollar sculp.

Publisher: John Overton

Dimensions: 308 × 218 mm (Plate)

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• Mortzfeld A 15915
• Aberle 28, 1888, 285-292 n° 6

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1649

Copper engraving

Artists:

Pieter Claesz. Soutman

Pieter van Sompel

Inscriptions: EFF^IGIES PARACELSI / MEDICI / CELEBERRIMI ‖ [Latin poem, 8 lines] ‖ P. Soutman Inuen. Effigrauit et Excud. / Cum Priuil. / P. Van Sompel Sculp.

Dimensions: 305 × 219 mm (Plate)

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• Mortzfeld A 15915
• Drugulin 1821
• Drugulin Ä. 4095
• Singer 40502
• Hollstein D. 27, 214 (Nr. 28/I)
• Burgess 2218.6
• Aberle 28, 1888, 278-280 n° 2

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Inscriptions: EFF^IGIES PARACELSI / MEDICI / CELEBERRIMI ‖ [Latin poem, 8 lines] ‖ P. P. Rub. pinxit / P. Soutman Excud. / Cum Priuil. / P. Van Sompel Sculp.

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• Aberle 28, 1888, 280-282 n° 3

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Inscriptions: effigies Paracelsi Medici celeberrimi

Dimensions: 154 × 113 mm (Plate)

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• Mortzfeld A 15914
• Drugulin 1806
• Drugulin Ä. 4087
• Diepenbroick 40291?
• Aberle 28, 1888, 282 n° 4

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from:
Alexandre Savérien, Histoire des philosophes modernes, t. VII, Paris: Bleuet & Guillaume fils 1761, 1769, 1773
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• Aberle 28, 1888, 282-283, n° 5

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from:
Alexandre Savérien, Histoire des philosophes modernes avec leur portrait, Paris 1769
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• Aberle 28, 1888, 283-284, n° 5/1

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Inscriptions: PHIL.^pe THEOPHRASTE BOMBAST ‖ dit Paracelse ‖ Né à Einsideln près Zurch en 1493. Mort à ‖ Saltzbourg en 1541.

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• Aberle 28, 1888, 301 n° 12

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from:
Jean François Dreux du Radier, L' Europe Illustre, t. 6, Paris: Nyon l'aîné 1777
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• Aberle 28, 1888, 301 n° 12

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from:
Paul François Velly; Claude Villaret; Jean Jacques Garnier, Recueil des Portraits des Hommes Illustres, t. 6, Paris: Nyon l'aîné 1786
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1642

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Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: Roger Daniel for John Williams 1642, p. 56
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Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: Roger Daniel for John Williams 1648, p. 51
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from:
Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: Roger Daniel for John Williams 1652, p. 51
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• Aberle 28, 1888, 300 n° 11/1

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from:
Philosophy Reformed & Improved, London: M.S. for Lodowick Lloyd 1657, frontispiece
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• Aberle 28, 1888, 300-301 n° 11/2

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4: With Beard

Aberle: “III. Typus”

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5: With Hat

Aberle: “I. Typus”

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Engraving

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• Aberle 27, 1887, 72-73 n° 1; 28, 1888, 272-277

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Artists:

Gottfried Bernhard Götz

Setletzky, Balthasar Sigmund

Publisher: Johann Georg Hertel

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