Theodor de Bry

Image of Copernicus
- Creator: Carl Barth
- Technique: steel engraving
- Date: ca. 1850
- Description: Representation of Copernicus in a rectangular frame with rosettes in the corners. The quarter-length figure of the astronomer in half-profile to the right. The engraving was based on the so-called Toruń portrait formerly belonging to the Academic Gymnasium in Toruń. The characteristic fur-lined collar of Copernicus' tunic is somewhat different from that in the original engraving by Theodorus de Bry. Inscription: Copernicus Eigenthum & Verlag des bibl. Instituts in Hildburghausen beneath. This engraving from the mid-19th c. is a typical example of 19th c. popular graphics
- Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
Portrait of Copernicus
- Creator: Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen
- Technique: copperplate engraving
- Date: ca. 1815
- Description: Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus made by Ernst Ludvig Riepenhausen showing a three-quarter-length figure of the astronomer looking slightly to the left. The inscription below is COPERNICUS. It is either a copy of the portrait formerly belonging to the Academic Gymnasium in Toruń or of a drawing by Theodorus de Bry. The engraver somewhat softened the sharp facial features typical of the earlier representations of the astronomer. This portrait was made in the first quarter of the 19th c.
- Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
Portrait of Copernicus
- Creator: Johann Jakob Vogel
- Technique: copperplate engraving
- Date: 1683
- Description: Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus based on his epitaph effigy in SS Johns' church in Toruń and printed in Christoph Hartknoch's Alt und Neues Preussen, Frankfurt 1684. The print is a mirror image of the original source. Like the original though, the lower part of the picture features an intriguing sentence, an excerpt from an ode to the Passion of Christ by Pope Pius II in which the author compares the astronomer to a criminal crucified alongside Christ. The caption which labels Copernicus as a mathematician from Toruń must have been taken from the engraving by Theodorus de Bry printed in Boissard's Images
- Location: Copernican Library in Toruń
Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Creator: Theodor de Bry
- Technique: copperplate engraving
- Date: 1597
- Description: Copperplate engraving by Theodorus de Bry from Liege and published in Jean-Jacques Boissard's Icones virorum illustrium in 1597 in Frankfurt-am-Main. The work was based on Stimmer's wood engraving and is a portrait featuring the bust of Copernicus. Turning to the right, the astronomer is holding a lily-of-the valley in his left hand. The portrait has an oval-shaped border set against a panel with floral decorative motifs. The publisher encircled Copernicus' figure with such personal details as his dates of birth and death as well as place of birth and origin: Tornaus, Borussus
- Location: Regional Museum in Toruń

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