Paulus Pontius and Sir Anthony van Dyck
Nicolaas Rockox
1638
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Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 375 × 295 mm. (14 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
Plate: 263 × 182 mm. (10 3/8 × 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15768
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."; above image, center, in graphite "98"; above image, upper right, in brown ink "23"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "10063"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
