Hendrick Goltzius
Roma
1585
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 389 x 257 mm. (15 5/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Plate: 372 x 240 mm. (14 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12073
Frontispiece to a series of ten plates (New Hollstein 163-171); this is a third state impression (with the addition of the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece around the coat of arms at top left).
Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper center, in plate "Roma"; in image, center, in plate two lines of text in Latin beginning "E' cinere et [...]"; in image, center, in plate eleven lines of text in Latin beginning "MEMORABILIA ALIQVOT [...]"; in image, lower left, in plate "HGoltzius inuenit sculpsit / et diuulgauit Ao. 1586. Harlemi."; below image, lower margin, in plate sixteen lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "Ecce gemelliparae sobolem [...]"; below image, lower right, in plate "Franco / Estius / composuit" Verso: lower center in graphite "Title plate to the / Eight Roman Heroes"; lower left in graphite diamond with "9106"
Markings: CM: Claghorn WM: Strasbourg Lily
