Anthonie Jacobsz. Roscius. Line engraving.
- Date:
- 1600-1699
- Reference:
- 8232i
- Pictures
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Description
Physician at Hoorn and minister to the Waterland Mennonites. "After the death of his first wife he married in second marriage on 4 September 1622 … [his] life had a tragic end. When crossing the ice to Amsterdam in January 1624, skating and sleighing with his wife and little daughter, all three fell through the ice. His little daughter drowned, his wife died a few days afterwards at Hoorn, and he himself died from grief some days later."—Lindeboom, loc. cit.
Publication/Creation
1600-1699
Physical description
1 print : engraving
Lettering
Dutch verses engraved below the portrait: Hier hebdij Roscius, door trou verongeluckt, / Dat niet een Cristen hert, maer veel gemoeden druckt: / Op wien Gods gaven vroegh als druppels nedervielen / En was gesalft tot troost van lichamen en zielen. / Der kruijdren kracht hij vergde, en voor het lichaem las, / En door't beschreven woord de krancke ziel genas.
References note
G.A. Lindeboom, Dutch medical biography, Amsterdam 1984, cols. 1673-1674 (on Roscius)
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2537.1
Reference
Wellcome Collection 8232i
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores