Forum Vulcani: The Hot Springs at Pozzuoli, 1578

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 18.8 x 29.3 cm (7 3/8 x 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Vignau-Wilberg 2017: no. F-e 13

Accession Number

1974.21.1

Artists / Makers

Joris Hoefnagel (artist) Flemish, 1542 - 1600

Image Use

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Inscription

Inscription at left and lower center partly illegible

Provenance

Lord Treowen, Llanover House, Monmouthshire; (sale, Burton, Knowles & Co, Gloucester, 20-28 June 1934). Mr. Alfred Jowett, Killinghall. David Carritt, Ltd; purchased 1974 by NGA.

Associated Names

David Carritt Limited, Artemis Group
Jowett, Alfred
Treowen Lord

Exhibition History

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 41.

Bibliography

1896: Chmelarz, Eduard. "Georg und Jacob Hoefnagel" Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses 17 (1896): 290.

1936: Popham, A. E. "Georg Hoefnagel and the Civitates Orbus Terrarum" Maso Finiguerra I (1936): 191, p. V

1985: Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta. "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, in North American Collections" Central European History xviii, 1 (1985):4-13, 70-74, 88.

1988: Nuti, Lucia. "The mapped views by Georg Hoefnagel: the merchant's eye, the humanist's eye." Word and Image. 4(April-June 1988): 545-570, fig. 19.

2005: Vignau-Wilberg, Thea. In Europa zu Hause. Berlin, 2005: 252, fig. 57.

2017: Vignau-Wilberg, Thea. Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel: Art and Science around 1600. Berlin, 2017: no. F-e 13

2019: Bass, Marisa Ann. Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt. Princeton, 2019: 26 and fig. 13.