Titelpagina van de catalogus van de Bodleian library
1674
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
195; 310
About this artwork
Titelpagina van de catalogus van de Bodleian library met in het midden het portret van Thomas Bodley. Buste naar rechts. Hij draagt een lange mantel. In de vier hoeken de portretten van de graaf van Pembroke, aartsbisschop William Laud, filosoof Kenelm Digby en geleerde John Selden.
About the Artist
Michael Burghers
Michael Burghers (c. 1647/48–1727), a Dutch engraver and illustrator, was born in Amsterdam and baptized in a Lutheran church before apprenticing to an engraver from a young age. Fleeing political turmoil after Louis XIV's forces captured Utrecht in June 1672, he settled in England, arriving in Oxford around early 1673. There, he became assistant to the prominent engraver David Loggan in 1673 and ...