The Statute of the Nile
1544/1572
Engraver, French, 1515 - 1565 or after
Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 32.6 × 54 cm (12 13/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.44
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 327, state i/iv
Associated Artworks
See all 58 artworks
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
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: XV.266.95
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 61
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered UL: "Veterum monumentorum studiose lector ... Ant. Lafreri aenea tabula nunc profert ex antiquo simulachro quod in Vaticano adhuc conspicitur exacte effigiata"
Wikidata ID
Q77259647