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Object Type
Museum number: 1861,0209.190
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; first state; from the first edition published by the widow of Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp in 1572. 1572 Engraving and letterpress
Producer name: Print made by: Johannes Wierix; Published by: Volcxken Diericx; Published by: Hieronymus Cock (widow)
School/style
Production date: 1572
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique: engraving; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 206 millimetres; Width: 122 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For comment on the series and its editions see 1925,1117.120. This is the first state, for other impressions see 1925,1117.136 and 1873,0809.965.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (2028.I) (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.a)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Pieter Coecke van Aelst I; Associated with: Dominicus Lampsonius (author of Latin verses)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1861
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1861,0209.190

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