Eighth 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): 21.9 x 30.7 cm (8 5/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1994.80.10
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 30
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
Exhibition History
1995
Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
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. 30.
1971
Riggs, Timothy A. "Hieronymus Cock: Printmaker and Publisher." Ph.D. diss., Yale University (1971): no. 9.
Inscriptions
upper right in plate: .G.; lower right in plate: COLOSSAEI.RO.PROSPECTVS.8.; lower left in plate: H COCK F 1550 (in reverse)
Wikidata ID
Q75125904