The Farnese Hercules, 1562

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series Title

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (Mirror of Roman Magnificence)

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

plate: 44.5 × 30.3 cm (17 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Ahmanson Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Rubach, no. 319, state i/iv

Accession Number

2012.46.1.34

Artists / Makers

Jacob Bos (engraver) Netherlandish, 1549 - 1580

Antonio Lafreri (publisher) Italian, 1512 - 1577

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Inscription

Lettered LR, in Greek: "Glykon Athenaios epoiei"
Lettered LR: "Iacobus Bossius Belga incidit"
Lettered LC: "Omnium elegantissimum Herculis signum Gliconis Atheniensis peritissimi artificis manu fabre factum ... Ant. Lafrerius Sequanus aeneis formis diligenter expressit Anno MDLXII"

Provenance

Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Dowling, Paul M.

Bibliography

1921: Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 55.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam, 1954-1868: III.150.15.

2016: Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.