The Farnese Hercules

1562

Jacob Bos

Engraver, Netherlandish, 1549 - 1580

Antonio Lafreri

Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    plate: 44.5 × 30.3 cm (17 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.46.1.34

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubach, no. 319, state i/iv

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This rectangular, light brown cover is marbled with darker brown, and the edges are worn and chipped. The spine, to our left, is bound by a light tan strip and divided vertically by five projecting ribs spaced along its height. Four small dark brown spots appear on the upper right corner, with a scattering of similar spots over the lower left section.

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)

Antonio Lafreri, Antonio Salamanca, Tommaso Barlacchi, Giacomo Lauro, Étienne Dupérac, Vincenzo Luchino, Jacob Bos, Bartolomeo Faleti, Nicolas Beatrizet, Pedro Perret, Enea Vico, Ferrando Bertelli, Marco Dente, Monogrammist HCB

1544

The Statue of Pasquino

Italian 16th Century

1544

The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'

Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca

1562

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. 55.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam, 1954-1868: III.150.15.

2016

  • Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.

Inscriptions

Lettered LR, in Greek: "Glykon Athenaios epoiei"
Lettered LR: "Iacobus Bossius Belga incidit"
Lettered LC: "Omnium elegantissimum Herculis signum Gliconis Atheniensis peritissimi artificis manu fabre factum ... Ant. Lafrerius Sequanus aeneis formis diligenter expressit Anno MDLXII"

Wikidata ID

Q77259627

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