Terms and conditions of use
Nicolaas Rockox
1639
from the Iconography (Icones Principum...) series
Medium
engraving
Measurements
26.0 × 17.7 cm (image) 26.2 × 18.1 cm (plate) 26.6 × 18.3 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 104 iv/x (van Dyck); Hollstein 117 iv/x (Pontius); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 115 iv/x
Edition
4th of 10 states
Printing/Publishing
published by Herman de Neyt, Antwerp
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) in oval frame around sitter: NICOLAVS ROCKOX EQVES ET CONSVLARIS ANTV. AET. ANNO LXXIX · (flourish) · STET QVICVNQɜ. (Qɜ joined) VOLET POTENS AVLÆ CVLMINE LVBRICO (LV monogram), ME DVLcIS SATVRET QVIES
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Paul. Pontius ſculpsit.
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: H. de Neyt excudit.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: 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
255A-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
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