Author: Maarten van den Enden (1605-1673), after Jan Lievens (1607-1674)
Title: [Antique print, engraving] Daniel Heinsius, published 1639.
Description: Portrait of the Leiden University professor Daniel Heinsius, with four Latin verses below. Half-length portrait, Heinsius wears a furred line cape he is holding with his left hand. His gaze looks towards the right.Titled below: 'Daniel Heinsivs Eqves Sgrgn.mo Svecorvm Regi A Consiliis; with four lines of Latin verse in two columns in lower margin: 'Hic ille Heinsiades ... / ... Leida fovere sinu.' by 'Maximilianus Vrientius, Senat Gand. a secretis.'; and lettered below with production details: 'Ioannes Lÿvÿus pinxit et fecit/ Martinus vanden Enden excud.'Daniël Heinsius was een humanistische geleerde. Hij genoot internationaal grote faam als uitgever van klassieke teksten, literair theoreticus en dichter. Hij was bijna zijn gehele leven verbonden aan de Universiteit Leiden, onder meer als bibliothecaris van de universiteit. Etching and engraving on paper, with small margins; total: 274 x 206 mm; state III/4; some smudges, a couple of worm holes at bottom, otherwise in good condition. Hollstein 22, Wurzbach 58, Rovinsky 58, Muller 2267, Bartsch 58.

Keywords: Early printings|Literature|Male|Portraits