Engraved Portrait of Calvin

Christoffel van Sichem (ca.1546–1624).  Historische Beschrijvinge Ende affbeeldinge der voornemste Hooft Ketteren : so vande Catholijcke, ende Christelijcke Kercke, als Swermers ende dwaelgeesten verbannen ende verworpen syn, haer leer, leven, begin ende eynde cort beschreven.
Amsterdam: Christoffel van Sichem, 1608. (AET8125)

Originally issued with seventeen engraved portraits of sixteenth-century religious “heretics,” with each image accompanied by a biographic sketch, Bridwell Library’s copy of Christoffel van Sichem’s Historische Beschrijvinge has eighteen additional illustrations of Protestant religious figures and scholars. These added images include portraits of Peter Martyr (1499–1562), Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), Sebastian Münster (1488–1552), Ulrich Zwingli (1484–1531), and, as exhibited here, Jean Calvin (1509–1564).