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Portrait of Copernicus
- Creator: Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen
- Technique: copperplate engraving
- Date: ca. 1815
- Description: Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus made by Ernst Ludvig Riepenhausen showing a three-quarter-length figure of the astronomer looking slightly to the left. The inscription below is COPERNICUS. It is either a copy of the portrait formerly belonging to the Academic Gymnasium in Toruń or of a drawing by Theodorus de Bry. The engraver somewhat softened the sharp facial features typical of the earlier representations of the astronomer. This portrait was made in the first quarter of the 19th c.
- Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
Contact
Nicolaus Copernicus University Library
Gagarina 13
87-100 Toruń
Poland
International Centre for Copernican Studies
Bojarskiego 1
87-100 Toruń
Poland
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