Author: WEGELIN, Josua 1604-1640
Title: Fine portrait engraving by L. Kilian. Dated 1629 in the plate
Publication: Augsburg: Johann Klockers, 1629
Description:
Three-quarter length. With letterpress text and poem within decorative typeset border. Image size 125 x 98 mm, sheet size 325 x 187 mm.
Sheet very slightly worn and browned.
A German hymnodist, superintendent of the Evangelical college in Augsburg, "Wegelin's hymns are simple and natural, and are the productions of an earnest, true-hearted and good pastor rather than of a skillful poet." Julian, p. 1246.
Seller ID: 33480
Subject: Art & Photographs