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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
1837,0513.173
Title
Object:
Petro Coeke Alostano, Pictori
Series:
Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Germaniae Inferioris Effigies
Description
Plate 16: Portrait of Pieter Coecke; three quarter length turned to the left with his body, but facing the viewer, with a beard, holding a palette and a brush and wearing a bonnet; fourth state; from the fourth edition of the series used as illustrations to Sebastiano Resta's "The True Effigies Of The Most Eminent Painters And Other Famous Artists" (D. and T. Browne: London, 1694). 1572 Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Johannes Wierix
Published by:
D and T Browne
Published by:
Theodoor Galle
(mentiond as publisher on print)
School/style
Netherlandish
British
Production date
1572
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
203 millimetres
Width:
122 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For comment on the series and its subsequent editions see 1925,1117.120. For other impressions of this print see 1925,1117.136, 1873,0809.965 and 1861,0209.190.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(2028.IV)
(Wierix)
Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher
(269)
van Someren 1888 / Beschriivende catalogus van Gegraveerde Portretten van Nederlanders. Vervolg op Frederik Mullers catalogus van 7000 Portretten van Nederlanders.
(1145.d)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Pieter Coecke van Aelst I
Illustration to:
Padre Sebastiano Resta
Associated with:
Dominicus Lampsonius
(author of Latin verses)
Associated titles
Associated Title:
The True Effigies Of the most Eminent Painters, and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe
Acquisition name
Donated by:
W & G Smith
Acquisition date
1837
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1837,0513.173