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Bust of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Creator: Author unknown
- Technique: lithography
- Date: 1834
- Description: Illustration taken from the periodical Przyjaciel Ludu (Friend of the People)
- Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
Design for a wall decoration featuring a figure of Copernicus
- Creator: Author unknown
- Technique: pen and ink drawing
- Date: 18th century
- Description: A cartoon design for a wall decoration showing Nicolaus Copernicus seated with compasses in his right hand, most probably drawing the heliocentric pattern. Astronomical instruments at his feet include an armillary sphere. Copernicus is dressed in a long robe with a characteristic neck ruff and thus stylised into a 17th c. scholar. The drawing was made in the 18th c
- Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
Miniature with a portrait of Copernicus
- Creator: Author unknown
- Technique: oil painting, copperplate
- Date: 17th century
- Description: Copy of a portrait made by Józef Flik (Czartoryski Museum)
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń
Portrait of Copernicus
- Creator: Author unknown
- Technique: lithography
- Date: 1842
- Description: Three-quarter length figure of Copernicus facing right. Inscription 'Nicolaus Copernikus' beneath. Lithograph made in Dresden for the printing house 'Borussia.Museum Preussische Vaterlandskunde. Dritter Band' based on Jocob van Maurs's engraving and taken from Pierre Gassendi's Nicolai Copernici vita in which Copernicus is shown wearing a large tuned down collar. Another feature characterising the drawing is the characteristic softness which imparts a sense of gentleness to the figure represented
- Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
Portrait of Copernicus
- Creator: Author unknown
- Technique: lithography
- Date: 1839
- Description: Copernicus holding a small telescope in his left hand with his right holding a sheet of card covered with drawings resting on his lap. He is sitting. His full figure is shown leaning against a monument and a globe; landscape with a sun-dial in the background. Lithograph taken from the periodical Przyjaciel Ludu (Friend of the People, 1839, issue 35) based on a painting by Jan Krystian Gładysz
- Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Creator: Author unknown
- Technique: oil painting on canvas
- Date: 17th century
- Description: Copy of Copernicus' portrait from the 17th c. made by Józef Flik in 1981 (Jagiellonian University Museum)
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń

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