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Nicolaas Rockox

Nicolaas Rockox
(1639-1645); published (1645-1646)
from the Iconography (Icones Principum...) series

Medium
engraving
Measurements
25.9 × 17.7 cm (image) 26.2 × 18.1 cm (plate) 26.5 × 18.4 cm (sheet)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 104 ix/x (van Dyck); Hollstein 117 ix/x (Pontius); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 115 ix/x
Edition
9th of 10 states
Printing/Publishing
published by Gillis Hendricx, Antwerp
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) in oval frame around sitter: NICOLAVS ROCKOX EQVES ET CONSVLARIS ANTV. REI ANTIQVARIÆ CVLTOR: STET QVICVNQɜ. (Qɜ joined) VOLET POTENS AVLÆ CVLMINE LVBRICO (LV monogram), ME DVLcIS SATVRET QVIES
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Ant. van Dyck pinxit. / Paul. Pontius ſculpsit.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: G. H.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: OBIIT. XII. DEC. M. DC. XL. / Qui nouies patriâ moderatus in Vrbe ſecures, / Qui ſummos ſpreuit, quos dabat Aula gradus; / ſic vultus, ſic docta gerit Roccoxius ora, / Octonas bis dum claudit Olÿmpiadas / Ambitione procul. Magnum delata Potestas, / Maiorem ſedenim ſpreta, Quiesqɜ (qɜ joined), probant. / C.Geuartius Pos.
Accession Number
255B-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Another Work Law, Civics and Protest Portraits
Subjects (specific)
collectors magistrates mayors philanthropists public officers reproductive prints Rockox, Nicolaas series (object groupings)
Movements
Baroque