Joâo Curvo Semmedo. Line engraving by A. van Westerhout, 1705, after F. da Costa.

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1705
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1705

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Ioam Curvo Semmedo medico Lisbonense familiar do Santo Officio. ... Felix da Costa pinx. Andreas Anton.s Oratii Romanus ornavit. Arnoldus van Westerhout Ferd. Mag. Princ. Etruriae sculptor fecit Romae sup. perm. 1705. Latin couplets beneath the portrait: Ad Curvi effigiem pavet horrida Mortis imago, / Semmedo orbi pellit ab orbe metum. / Ille dies hominum longos protendit in annos, / Hinc Curvi nomen curva senecta tenet.

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R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2695.2

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