Author: Frisius, Simon Wijnants (1580-1629)
Title: [Antique engraving, published 1610] Portrait print of artist Antonius Mor, 1 p.
Description: [34] Antonius Morus, Ultraiectinus Pictor. (Pictorum aliquot celebrium, præcipué Germaniæ Inferioris, effigies; series title). Portrait of Anthonis Mor, while paining a (self?)-portrait. On the background a landscape with city view on Utrecht. Signed on the table in the foreground: 'Hh / Cum privil'. 34th plate of the series. Inscription on the bottom: 'ANTONIUS MORUS, ULTRAIECTINUS / PICTOR / Quaestus, nomen, honos, si munera magna petenda: / Voto respondent omnia, More, tuo. / Te coluit Caesar, tum magnus Caesaris haeres. / Multum his principibus te placuisse viris'. On the verso collector's mark of Paul Menso, L.4347. Etching trimmed within plate mark, total: 212 x 121 mm; Hollstein 156

Keywords: Artist portraits|Portraits