Anton Birckhart (1677-1748)

ROMAN EMPEROR NUMERIANUS

Prague, 1736
Copperplate on handmade paper with watermark, 24,5x16,5 cm, marked on the upper edge of the portrait medallion "IMP. NVMERIANVS. P. F. AVG." and on the lower edge "Birckhart sculp: Pragae.". Illustration from the historical work by P. Timotej Raisky, Periodus historica, ab Octaviano Augusto usque ad Diocletianum et Maximilianum trium saeculorum cursu confecta…, containing 46 full-page fictional portraits of Roman emperors and printed in 1736 at the Clementinian Press by the factor Leopold Jan Kamenický. Lit.: Jiří Fiala, P. Timotej Raisky, S.J., olomoucký univerzitní rektor a český jezuitský provinciál, in: Sborník prací FF MU, V 10, 2007, p. 115 etc.