[Antwerp, Plantin, c.1606.]
Copper engraving. 140 x 100mm, 5½ x 4". Tear top right.
A portrait of the poet Homer (active c.850BC), from a gold coin in the collection of antiquities of Fulvius Ursinus (1529–1600), published in his 'Illustrium imagines. Ex antiquis marmoribus, nomismatibus, et gemmis expressae.'
[Ref: 19992]  £75.00