View of the Colosseum

probably 1550

Hieronymus Cock

Artist, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 23.4 x 32.4 cm (9 3/16 x 12 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.80.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 24

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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. 24.

1971

  • Riggs, Timothy A. "Hieronymus Cock: Printmaker and Publisher." Ph.D. diss., Yale University (1971): no. 2.

2018

  • Oberthaler, Elke, et al. Breugel: The Hand of the Master. Exh cat, Vienna, 2018: 179, fig. 4.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: .AA. / COLOSSAEI RO A BARBARIS / DIRVTI, PROSPECTVS .I.; lower center in plate: COCK.FECIT.

Wikidata ID

Q75125862

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