The Roman Capitol
c. 1560
Engraver, French, 1515 - 1565 or after
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 38.6 × 53.3 cm (15 3/16 × 21 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.20
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 363, state ii/ii
Associated Artworks
See all 57 artworksThe Statue of Pasquino
Italian 16th Century
1544
The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'
Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca
1562
Pantheum Romanum [The Roman Pantheon]
Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri, Nicolas Beatrizet
1549
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich, 1921: no. 90a.
1932
Linzeler, André. Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle. Paris, 1932: I.95 (as Beatrizet).
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered LC: "Capitolij et adiacentium sibi aedificiorum dextra sinistraque nuper instauratorum simulque equestris Mar. Aurel. in media area quae occidentem prospicit aeneae Statuae imago Romae"
Wikidata ID
Q77259591