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- Title:
Nicolaus Rockox Eques et Consularis Antu.. Aet. Anno LXXIX
- Additional Title(s):
Nicolaas II Rockox
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1639
- Materials & Techniques:
- Line engraving and stipple engraving (4th state) on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (38.6 × 28.3 cm), Plate: 10 7/16 × 7 1/4 inches (26.5 × 18.4 cm), Image: 10 1/4 × 7 inches (26 × 17.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "W.115 4th state Very Rare"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "ex c.24962"
Watermark: "Foolscap" Collector's mark: "G.A.C."
Lettered, center: "STET QUICUNQ VOLET POTENS AULÆ CULMINE UBRICO.ME DUISIS SATURET QUIES NICOLAUS ROCKOX EQUES ET CONSULARIS ANTU. AET. ANNO LXXIX."; lettered, lower center: "Qui nouies szatria moderatus in Urbe Secures, | Qui Summos spreuit, quos dabat Aula gradus; | Sie vultus, sic docta gerit Roccoxius ora, | Octonas bis dum claudit Olympiadas | Ambitione procul Magnum delata Potestas, | Maiorem Sedenim spreta, Quiesq[?], probant."; lettered, lower left: "Paul Pontius Sculpsit 1639"; lettered, lower right: "H. de Neyt excudit | C. Geuartius Pos."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10552
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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