Second View of the Colosseum

probably 1550

Hieronymus Cock

Artist, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Hieronymus Cock

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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 × 33.9 cm (9 3/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
    mount: 31.9 × 45 cm (12 9/16 × 17 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.80.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 23


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. 23.

1971

  • Riggs, Timothy A. "Hieronymus Cock: Printmaker and Publisher." Ph.D. diss., Yale University (1971): no. 3.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: .A.; upper center in plate: COLOSSAEI.RO.ALIVS PROSPECTVS.

Wikidata ID

Q75125866


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