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Cesare Alessandro Scaglia

Paulus Pontius, Sir Anthony van Dyck, Gillis Hendricx

Cesare Alessandro Scaglia

1624-1649

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Paulus Pontius, Sir Anthony van Dyck, Gillis Hendricx

Cesare Alessandro Scaglia

1624-1649

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 257 × 192 mm. (10 1/8 × 7 9/16 in.) Plate: 248 × 183 mm. (9 3/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.15800
There are three impression of this print in the Garrett Collection: 1946.112.15748 (state v), 1946.112.15800 (state viii), and 1946.112.15630 (state vii or ix).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower right, in plate "OBIT XXI. MAY / M. DC. XLI."; below image, lower center, in plate "CÆSAR ALEXANDER SCAGLIA ABBAS STAPHARDÆ ET MANDANICES."; below image, lower center beneath title, six lines of verse in Latin (two columns of three lines): "Hic, quem tacentem nobilis finxit manus, / Sibi nunc silendo uiuit: actotum procul / Nuper diserta Principes linguâ mouens / Vndare Mundum tacitus e Portu untuens / Momenta rebus magna perplexis dedit. / Animum ad futura, doctus ex uisis parat."; below image and lines of verse, lower left, in plate "P. Pontius sculp."; below image and lines of verse, lower center, in plate "Ant. van Dyck pinxit"; below image and lines of verse, lower center, in plate "G.H."; below image and lines of verse, lower right, in plate "Cum priuilegio"; below image, lower left, in graphite "t"; below image, lower left, in graphite "4th state"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "10046" Verso: lower left in graphite indecipherable; lower left in graphite "BBM"; lower left in graphite "5754"; lower center in graphite diamond with "10046"; lower right in graphite "E + / 0."

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett WM: fragment, foolscap with five-pointed collar

Artist

Paulus Pontius

Flemish, 1603-1658
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Artist

Sir Anthony van Dyck

Flemish, 1599-1641
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Publisher

Gillis Hendricx

Flemish, active 1640-1677
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