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Giuseppe Francesco Borri emblematic portrait - Adam McLean - 11-22-2022
Engraving by Theodor Dirck Matham (1605-1676)?
Giuseppe Francesco Borri (1627-1695) was an alchemist and doctor. In the 1650s he met the Marquis Massimiliano Palombara in Rome, active in the alchemical circles around Queen Christina of Sweden.
It has been suggested that this allegory with the portrait of Francesco Giuseppe Borri, by print maker Theodor Matham, Jan Zoet, was a forgery by Seger Tielemans, 1662 - 1666
Ex numine lumen The light from the god (the Sun)
et soror et coniux and his sister and spouse (the Moon)
Tu ne cede malis Do not give way to evil
Alterius genetrix Another genealogy
Premia virtuti The rewards of virtue
Geminamure ab illis We were separated from them
Oenipontium Innsbruck
RE: Giuseppe Francesco Borri emblematic portrait - Adam McLean - 11-22-2022
The plant on the left side of the engraving has some interesting features, as its leaves bear somewhat modified signs for the elements.