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

1687

1 print

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.

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

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

Wellcome Collection 3983i