Anna Maria Schurman, etching self portrait, 1632.
The Latin translates: “No pride or beauty prompted me to engrave my features in the unforgiving copper; but because, if my unpractised graver was not yet capable of producing good work, I would not risk a more weighty task the first time.”
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