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Object Type
Museum number: 1948,0410.4.53
Title: Series: The Celebrated Roman Women
Description: Plate numbered 4: the Roman women pleading Corolianus; standing at centre, Coriolanus wearing an armour; a group of kneeling women, including his wife Volumnia and his mother Veturia, pleading him to call off his intented attack to Rome, seen in the background to right; behind; military camps and the army of the Volsci; after Jan van der Straet. 1573 Engraving
Producer name: After: Jan van der Straet; Published by: Carel Collaert
School/style
Production date: 1573 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 218 millimetres; Width: 296 millimetres
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Curator's comments: From a series of Celebrated women of the Roman Antiquity. First published by Hieronimous Cock in 1573. Only two prints were signed by Furnius.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (298) (Johannes Stradanus); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (17 (undescribed)) (Peter Jalhea Furnius); Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (687.4); Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (189)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ancient history; allegory/personification
Associated names: Representation of: Romulus; Representation of: Volumnia; Representation of: Veturia
Associated places: Associated with: Rome
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1948,0410.4.53

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