Inscription
around circumference: .VICTORI.GLORIA.MAIOR.ERIT. (To the victor will be the greater glory); in exergue: S[ENATUS] C[ONSULTO] (By the decree of the senate)
Marks and Labels
Reverse bears former inventory numbers P.104 (for Plaquette no. 104) in black ink (Bode/Thieme 1897/1906) and 54 in white paint (Hainauer/Duveen 1908).
Provenance
Oscar Hainauer [d. 1894], Berlin; his wife, Julie Hainauer, Berlin; acquired 1906 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); by exchange 21 October 1920 to Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
Bibliography
- 1897
- Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 100, no. 244 (plaquette no. 104).
- 1908
- A Cabinet of One Hundred & Thirty-Three Bronze Plaques and Medals of the Renaissance Period from the Collection of the Late Herr Oscar Hainauer of Berlin. Ed. Duveen Brothers. London, n.d. (but 1908): no. 54, repro.
- 1942
- Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 15.
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