Gezicht op het Colosseum te Rome, Giovanni Battista Pittoni (I), after Hieronymus Cock, 1561

Title(s)

Gezicht op het Colosseum te Rome
Colossaei ro prospectus (title on object)
Romeinse ruïnes (series title)
Praecipua aliquot Romanae Antiquitatis Ruinarum Monimenta (...) (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1997-79

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Gezicht op de resten van het Colosseum te Rome. Titel in het Latijn linksboven. Genummerd linksboven: III. Genummerd rechtsonder: III.

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Battista Pittoni (I) (mentioned on object)
• after print by: Hieronymus Cock

Place

Vicenza

Dating

1561

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 296 mm × width 214 mm

What

• ruin of a building ~ architecture
• landscape with ruins
• theatre (building) - AA - open-air performances

Where

• Colosseum

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1997

Copyright

Public domain

• Brun - Coques, p. 183, cat.nr. 26
• Peter Fuhring, in J. van Grieken - G. Luijten - J. van der Stock, "Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print", exh.cat. Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels and Fondation Custodia in Paris, New Haven and London, 2013, cat.nr. 9.