Portrait of Josephus Scaliger, Portrait of Josephus Scaliger, Protestant humanist, poet, polemicist and professor at the University of Leiden. Scaliger sits at a table under a bar and holds a roll of paper with Arabic text in his left hand, a writing quill in his right hand. Above the portrait is the name of the person portrayed, below his motto: Fuimus Troës. On the pedestal a ten-line verse in Latin., print, print maker: Jan de Leeuw, (mentioned on object), Hugo de Groot, (mentioned on object), printer: van Papenbroek, (mentioned on object), The Hague, 1714 - 1728, paper, engraving, h

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