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Object Type
print
Museum number
1983,U.318
Title
Series:
Operum Antiquorum Romanorum
(The Small Book of Roman Ruins and Buildings)
Description
View of Roman ruins with two barrel vaults resting on an unsupported lintel at centre, probably the Colosseum, one figure in foreground; second state with number; perhaps after Hieronymus Cock. 1562 Etching and engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Johannes van Doetecum I
Print made by:
Lucas van Doetecum
After:
Hieronymus Cock
(?)
Published by:
Frederick de Wit
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1562
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
210 millimetres
Width:
155 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is one of a series of twenty-one, for comment see 1983,U.309.
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(244.II)
(The Van Doetecum Family)
Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher
(113)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
roman amphitheatre/arena
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
Colosseum
(?)
Acquisition date
1753-1983
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1983,U.318