Antique portraiture engravings from 17th century onwards

Lot 130076: Athanasius Kircher - Engraved by R. Cooper c1780

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This portrait of the German Jesuit scholar, philosopher, and polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), painted by the 19th-century engraver R. Cooper.

The engraving is adapted from the portrait at the beginning of Kircher’s 1664 work , Mundus Subterraneus .

The work was published in London by Charles & Henry Baldwyn.