Eighth View of the Colosseum

Artist Hieronymus Cock (Flemish, about 1510–1570)

Date1550

Mediumetching on cream laid paper

Dimensionssheet (mostly trimmed within platemark): 22.1 × 30.8 cm (8 11/16 × 12 1/8 in.)

ClassificationsPrints

MarkingsInscribed within image, LL: "H . Cock . F . 0551"; LR: "COLOSSAEI RO PROSPECTUS 8"; UR: "G"; verso, in graphite, LL: "MW H. 30"; LR: "H 30". Collector's stamp, in black ink, verso, LL: monogram "JJB" surrounded by outline of artist's palette (Lugt 1425).

Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund

Terms

Object number1990.146

Label TextIt was Cock who transplanted the Italian profession of printmaker-publisher to the Netherlands. Trained as a painter by his father, Jan Wellens de Cock, he journeyed to Rome to experience the Renaissance first-hand. By 1548 he was back in Antwerp, where he began selling etchings after drawings he had done in Italy. He opened his own shop, called Aux quatre vents, after his shop sign that represented the Four Winds. Cock expanded the business, hiring engravers and salesmen, and issuing prints after artists like Pieter Bruegel, Hans Bol, and Cornelis Floris.ProvenanceR. E. Lewis, Inc., Larkspur Landing, CA; Ex-collection J. Burleigh James, probably sold 19 March and 9 following days, 1877, Sotheby's, London (first part of sale, artists A-H.)

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