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:: Works of Art ::
Portrait of Tycho Brahe
copperplate engraving by J. de Gheyn, W 1394
Landskrona Museum (Inv no. LM 10804/2).
Portrait of Tycho Brahe
copperplate engraving by J. de Gheyn, W 1377
Landskrona Museum (Inv no. LM 10804/2).
There are several copies of a contemporary, now destroyed, portrait painting of Tycho Brahe, such as:
Portrait of Tycho Brahe
present day copy of a painting from the 1580's
Rundetarn in Copenhagen (Inv no. B1-204).
Portrait of Tycho Brahe
drawing by Gemperlin
Copperplate Collection at The National Museum of Art, Copenhagen.
Portrait of Live Larsdatter
Tycho's housekeeper
Rundetarn in Copenhagen (inv no. B1-19) (Several present day plaster busts of Tycho Brahe and a number of other astronomers can be found at Rundetarn)
About portraits of Tycho Brahe, see Cassiopeia 1946, p. 52.
List of Portraits of Tycho Brahe, see P.B.C. Westergaard, Danske portraeter i kobberstik, litografi og traesnit ("Danish Portraits in Copperplate Engravings, Lithographs and Wood-Engravings"), Copenhagen 1939. The Lengertz Collection in Malmö City Library contains many copperplate engravings, approximately 100 portraits of Tycho Brahe at different ages. |
