Terms and conditions of use
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
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
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