Ruins on the Palatine with a Panoramic Landscape, 1550

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series Title

Views of Roman Ruins: pl. L [Hollstein 22-46]

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 20.3 x 28.1 cm (8 x 11 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 34

Accession Number

1994.80.14

Artists / Makers

Hieronymus Cock (artist) Netherlandish, 1518 - 1570

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate (in clouds): .L.; upper right in plate: RVINARVM PALATII MAIORIS CVM / PARTE SEPTIZONY PROSPECTVS .3.; lower right in plate: HIRONIMVS / COCK.FECIT / 1550

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. 34.

1971: Riggs, Timothy A. "Hieronymus Cock: Printmaker and Publisher." Ph.D. diss., Yale University (1971): no. 13.