Fifth View of the Colosseum
1550
Artist, Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 30.5 x 22.4 cm (12 x 8 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1994.80.7
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 27
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. 27.
1971
Riggs, Timothy A. "Hieronymus Cock: Printmaker and Publisher." Ph.D. diss., Yale University (1971): no. 6.
Inscriptions
upper left in plate: .D.; upper center in plate: COLOSSAEI.RO.PROSPECTVS.5.; lower left in plate: H. COCK.FE / 1550; lower left in plate: 154[6?] (effaced)
Wikidata ID
Q75125879