Titus Manlius Torquatus, 1586

Not on View

portfolio Title

The Roman Heroes

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 37 × 23.1 cm (14 9/16 × 9 1/8 in.) (trimmed)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein 1996, no. 168, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.556

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

lower left, in image, in plate: HG. fecit.; in margin below image, in plate: Haud minimo Gallum superas Torquate triumpho, / Robusto maior pectore, mole minor. / Haec vis est, habet hoc aeterni nominis ardor, / Ardua despecto cuncta subire metu. F. Estius

Provenance

Naudet [active 1778-1829], Paris (Lugt 1937), acquired in 1810. (Hill-Stone Fine Prints & Drawings, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 6, 2006; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Hill-Stone, Inc.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Naudet

Exhibition History

2013: Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

Bibliography

1921: Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie: no. 166, ii/ii

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 168, ii/ii