Johann Jakob Harder. Line engraving by J. J. Thourneyser, 1687, after M. Merian the younger.

  • Matthäus Merian the younger
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1687
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3983i
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Johann Jakob Harder. Line engraving by J. J. Thourneyser, 1687, after M. Merian the younger. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1687

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1 print

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Bears monogram: MF, recorded by Nagler, loc. cit. on a portrait of the Basel physician Bernhard Verzascha, engraved by Bartholomäus Kilian in 1678. The present print also shows a Basel physician as its subject.

Creator/production credits

Burgess (loc. cit.) records Mathäus Merian (1593-1650) as the artist "M", but he died before the present sitter was born. Attributed therefore to Mathäus Merian the younger (1621-1687), who was also active in Basel and was the teacher of Bartholomäus Kilian

References note

G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, Munich 1871, vol. IV, p. 557, no. 1781
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1296.1

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Wellcome Collection 3983i

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