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CAT. 21.  Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), by an unknown artist.

Electronic facsimiles of this, and other portraits by Miguel Cabrera and Juan de Miranda.

CAT. 22.  Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). The Large Piece of Turf. Watercolor and body color, heightened with white. 1503.

Facsimile of original watercolor.

CAT. 23.  Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717). Study of plant and insects. Colored brush drawing. Ca. 1696.

Grayscale facsimile of engraving for Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium. In qua erucæ ac vermes surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus, ad vivum delineantur & describuntur, singulis eorum in plantas, flores & fructus collocatis, in quibus reperta sunt; tum etiam generatio ranarum, bufonum rariorum, lacertarum, serpentun, araneorum & formicarum exhibetur; omnia in America ad vivum naturali magnitudine picta atque descripta per Mariam Sibyllam Merian. Amstelodami: sumtibus Auctoris, venduntur & apud Gerardum Valk, 1705.

CAT. 24.  Robert Hooke (1635–1703). The Carter, Shepherd Spider, or long-legg’d Spider. Engraving, after illustration by Robert Hooke. First presented to the Royal Society of London on 29 April 1663.

Facsimile of original image in Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon. London: Printed by Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Bell in S. Paul’s Church-yard, 1665.

CAT. 25.  Impresa (or personal device) of the Florentine humanist, Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472). Inscribed “QUID TUM.”

Facsimile of original medallion.

CAT. 26.  Emblematic frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, a work variously attributed to the King of England, Charles I (1600–1649), and the Bishop of Worcester, John Gauden (1605–1662). Designed and engraved by William Marshall (fl. 1617–1649): “Guil: Marshall delinea: et Sculpsit.” 1649.

Facsimile of original image on folded sheet in Eikon basilike. The pourtraicture of His sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings: together with his private prayers used in the time of his restraint delivered to D. Juxon, Bishop of London, immediately before his death. [London:] MDCXLIX [1649].

CAT. 27.  Peirce Tempest (1653–1717). Emblem 282, “Printing.” Designed and engraved by Isaac Fuller, et al. 1709.

Facsimile of original image in Iconologia: or, moral emblems, by Caesar Ripa. Wherein are express’d, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies; as design’d by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians. Useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity. Illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations. Newly design’d, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest. London: Printed by Benj. Motte, 1709.

CAT. 28.  Achille Bocchi (1488–1562). Symb. CVIII, Prudentia circunspecta. 1574.

Facsimile of original image in Achillis Bocchii Bonon. Symbolicarum quæstionum, de universo genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque. Bononiæ: Apud Societatem Typographiæ Bononiensis, 1574.

CAT. 29.  Johann Amos Comenius (1592–1670). No. CX, Prudentia. 1659.

Facsimile of original image in Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus. Hoc est, omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura. Joh. Amos Commenius’s Visible world, or, a picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein. A work newly written by the author in Latine, and High-Dutch (being one of his last essays, and the most suitable to childrens capacities of any that he hath hitherto made) & translated into English, by Charles Hoole, teacher of a private grammar-school in Lothbury, London. For the use of young Latine-scholars. London: Printed for J. Kirton, at the Kings-Arms, in Saint Paules Church-yard, 1659.

CAT. 30.  Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). Title page engraving for Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican. 1632.

Facsimile of original image in Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo matematico sopraordinario del lo studio di Pisa. E filosofo, e matematico primario del serenissimo Gr. Duca di Toscana. Doue ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano; proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l’una, quanto per l’altra parte. Con privilege in fiorenza, per Gio: Batista Landini MDCXXXII [1632].

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CAT. 31.  Jean François Nicéron (1613–1646). Tab. 50, showing heads of former popes. 1638.

Facsimile of original image in La perspective curievse, ou, Magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l’optique ... la catoptrique ... la dioptrique ... par Jean François Nicéron. Paris: Pierre Billaine, 1638.

CAT. 32.  Portrait of Venetia Digby (1600-1633), by Sir Anthony van Dyck.

Facsimile of original painting.

CAT. 33.  Portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), by Sir Anthony van Dyck.

Facsimile of original painting.

CAT. 34.  Isotta Nogarola (1418–1466). Woodcut showing the 15th-century she-philosopher in her book-lined cell, for which she was famous from ca. 1441/early 1450s onwards. 1497.

Facsimile of original image in Jacopo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo (1434–1520). De plurimis claris sceletisque mulieribus. Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis de Valentia, 1497.

CAT. 35.  Theophilus Dorrington (d. 1715). “The Excellent Woman.” Frontispiece engraving by J. Sturt. 1692.

Facsimile of original image in The excellent woman described by her true characters and their opposites. London: Printed for Joseph Watts ..., 1692.

CAT. 36.  Portrait engraving of John Wilkins (1614–1672). Woodcut. 1708.

Facsimile of original image in The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins, late Lord Bishop of Chester: to which is prefix’d the author’s life, and an account of his works. London: Printed for J. Nicholson [etc.], 1708.

CAT. 37.  Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673). Detail from marble effigy in Westminster Abbey. The tomb — “a Noble Monument of white Marble, adorned with two Columns (of black Marble) and an Entablature of the Corinthian Order, with their Graces Portraitures, in full Proportion” — was possibly designed by William Cavendish, and sculpted by Grinling Gibbons. Ca. 1673.

Facsimile of sepulchral image.

CAT. 38.  Peirce Tempest (1653–1717). Emblem 59, “Melancholy.” Designed and engraved by Isaac Fuller, et al. 1709.

Facsimile of original image in Iconologia: or, moral emblems, by Caesar Ripa. Wherein are express’d, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies; as design’d by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians. Useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity. Illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations. Newly design’d, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest. London: Printed by Benj. Motte, 1709.

CAT. 39.  Roeland Saverij (1576–1639). Study of a Tree. Chalk, oil pigments, and washes on brown paper. Ca. 1615.

Grayscale facsimile of original chalk drawing (19" x 14.0625").

CAT. 40.  Sir Peter Lely (1618–1680). Portrait of Abraham Cowley.

Electronic facsimiles of this original painting, and of a 17th-century engraving, after another portrait of Cowley by Lely.

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