Paulus Pontius and Sir Anthony van Dyck
Nicolaas Rockox
1638
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Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 443 × 303 mm. (17 7/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
Plate: 265 × 181 mm. (10 7/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15750
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore
Inscribed: Recto: in image, in the oval border surrounding the portrait, in plate "NICOLAVS ROCKOX EQVES ET CONSVLARIS ANTV. REI ANTIQVARIE CVLTOR. STET QVICVNO, VOLET POTENS AVLÆ CVLMINE LBRICO, ME DVLCIS SATVRET QVIES"; in image, lower left, in plate "Ant van Dyck pinxit. / Paul. Pontius sculpsit."; in image, lower center, in plate "OBIT XII. DEC. M. DC. XL."; in image, lower center, in plate, six lines of text beginning "Qui nouies [...]"; in image, lower right, in plate "C.Geuartis Pos."
Markings: CM: none WM: indecipherable
