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Illustration of Epictetus in Edward Ivie’s 1715 Latin translation of Enchiridion.

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Artist
William Sonmans  (1650–1708)  wikidata:Q18811422
 
Alternative names
Wilhelm Sonmans; Wilhelm Sunman; William Sunman; Sonmans; Willem Sunman
Description Dutch painter
Date of birth/death July 1650 Edit this at Wikidata 1708 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Dordrecht Edit this at Wikidata Soho Edit this at Wikidata
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London; Oxford Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18811422
Michael Burghers  (–1727)  wikidata:Q6828935
 
Alternative names
Michael Burgers
Description Dutch engraver, drawer, etcher, copper engraver and mezzotinter
Dutch engraver
Date of birth/death 1650 / circa  Edit this at Wikidata 9 January 1727 / 1727 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Utrecht Edit this at Wikidata Oxford Edit this at Wikidata
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Oxford Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q6828935
Author

Frontispiece drawn by “Sonnem.” (?, left bottom corner) and engraved by “MB” (bottom right corner). The artist is likely William Sonmans (Sunman). The engraver is Michael Burghers. (Burghers engraved other portraits by Sonmans in this period).

Image scanned by the John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library. Image slightly improved by Aristeas.
Description
English: Imaginary portrait of Epictetus. Engraved frontispiece of Edward Ivie’s Latin translation (or versification) of Epictetus’ Enchiridon, printed in Oxford in 1715. Original title of the book: “Epicteti Enchiridion Latinis versibus adumbratum. Per Eduardum Ivie A. M. Ædis Christi Alumn. […] Oxoniæ, Theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXV. […]”

The subscription is an epigram from the Anthologia Palatina (VII 676) and reads:

Δοῦλος Ἐπίκτητος γενόμην, καὶ σῶμ’ ἀνάπηρος,
καὶ πενίην Ἶρος, καὶ φίλος ἀθανάτοις.
“I was Epictetus the slave, and not sound in all my limbs, and poor as Irus, and beloved by the gods.” (Irus is the beggar in the Odyssey.)
Deutsch: Phantasieporträt Epiktets. Radierung als Frontispiz zu Edward Ivies lateinischer Übersetzung (bzw. Versifikation) von Epiktets Enchiridon, erschienen Oxford 1715. Originaltitel des Buches: „Epicteti Enchiridion Latinis versibus adumbratum. Per Eduardum Ivie A. M. Ædis Christi Alumn. […] Oxoniæ, Theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXV. […]“
Das als Bildunterschrift dienende griechische Epigramm stammt aus der Anthologia Palatina (VII 676) und lautet übersetzt in etwa: „Ich war der Sklave Epiktet, mit verkrüppeltem Körper, ein Iros wegen meiner Armut und der Unsterblichen Freund.“ (Iros ist der Bettler in der Odyssee.)
Date 1715
date QS:P571,+1715-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer https://archive.org/details/epictetienchirid00epic
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