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series Title

Views of Roman Ruins [Hollstein 22-46]

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 19.5 x 27.7 cm (7 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 22

Accession Number

1994.80.1

Artists / Makers

Hieronymus Cock (artist) Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Image Use

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Inscription

across center in plate: PRAECIPVA ALIQVOT ROMANAE / ANTIQVITATIS RVINARVM / MONIMENTA, VIVIS PROSPECTI- / BVS, AD VERI IMITATIONEM / AFFABRE DESIGNATA / In florentiss. Antuerpia per Hiro. Coc / Mense Maio, Anno .M.D.LI.; lower center in plate: CVM CAESA. / PRIVILEGIO AD / VIII AN

Provenance

(sale, Christie's, London, 29 November 1994, no. 53); (Christopher Mendez, London via David Tunick, New York); purchased 1994 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher
Tunick, Inc., David

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 Vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1951: vol. IV (Cock), no. 22.

1971: Riggs, Timothy A. "Hieronymus Cock: Printmaker and Publisher." Ph.D. diss., Yale University (1971): no. 1.