Personification of Rome

Not on View

Medium

etching (iron) on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.6 x 16 cm (8 7/8 x 6 5/16 in.)

sheet: 22.9 x 16.5 cm (9 x 6 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 41, State i/ii

Accession Number

2000.183.1

Artists / Makers

Hieronymus Hopfer (artist) German, active c. 1520 - 1550 or after

Giovanni Battista Palumba (artist after) Italian, active first quarter 16th century

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: IH; lower center in plate: ROMA; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Jerome Hopfer B37 / 4927 / La Diesse tutelaire de la Ville d. / (not deciphered)

Marks and Labels

two unidentified collectors' marks

Provenance

(Olimpia Theodoli, London); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Theodoli, Olimpia

Exhibition History

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 101, repro. detail, p.18.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, no. 41, i/ii.