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Image Not Available for Small View of an Amphitheater, probably the Colosseum, from "Operum antiquorum romanorum"
Small View of an Amphitheater, probably the Colosseum, from "Operum antiquorum romanorum"
Image Not Available for Small View of an Amphitheater, probably the Colosseum, from "Operum antiquorum romanorum"

Small View of an Amphitheater, probably the Colosseum, from "Operum antiquorum romanorum"

Artist (Dutch, about 1530–after 1606)
Artist (Dutch, active 1559–1593)
Artist (Flemish, about 1510–1570)
Date1562
Mediumetching with engraving on thin slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensionsimage: 20.5 × 15.5 cm (8 1/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
sheet (trimmed to platemark): 21 × 16 cm (8 1/4 × 6 5/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
MarkingsCollector's mark on verso, stamped in purple ink, LR: "A" and "B" joined, surmounting "V" (or "W"), all initials integrated with cross having 3 hor. bars on top (not in Lugt).
Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund
Object number1991.25
Label TextThe most versatile and prolific craftsmen employed by Cock, the Duetecum brothers helped make Aux quatre vents the leading publisher north of the Alps. They worked as a team, producing hundreds of plates, representing Roman ruins, ancient design, and Renaissance architecture. These popular prints helped to spread Italianate ideas and images in the North. This piece reveals how skillful the brothers were in preserving not only the design, but the personal style of the drawings that were the models for their plates.ProvenanceJan Johnson, 2076 Sherbrooke Street, W., Suite 7, Montreal Canada H3H 1G6
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