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Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Titel page of #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT), Part I
Engraving
1616
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Lucas Kilian
Xerses Philomater (aka Xerxes philosophus aka Xerses phus)
Engraving
1616
Detail from:
G. Selenus: Das Schach- oder König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616; Titel page of Part I
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Michael Wolgemut or Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (workshops of)
Xerses Phus
Woodcut
74 mm × 55 mm
Originally part of the Liber Chronicarum, Nürnberg 1493
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (@rijksmuseum)
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