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Nicolaas Rockox

Nicolaas Rockox
(1639-1645); published (after 1677)
from the Iconography (Icones Principum...) series

Medium
engraving

Measurements
25.9 × 17.8 cm (image) 26.0 × 17.8 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 104 x/x (van Dyck); Hollstein 117 x/x (Pontius); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 115 x/x

Edition
10th of 10 states

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.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
255C-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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