ECL-Bn.12:10-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.12:10-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Statue: River god or Ocean
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
The volume Bn 12 is described in Fa 4 as : 'Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae in loose sheets being points of ye most famous remains of buildings, amphitheatres, temples, columns, triumphal arches, mausoleums and statues in Rome - engraved by Lafrerius, Barlachus, Aen. Vicus and others'
Description
Content (description)
Ocean, half-draped, and with an oar (?) over his right shoulder, leans his left arm on a sea-monster. Waves billow beneath the figure.
Top left is the following inscription:
AMICE QUAM TU HIC EFFIGIEM SPECTATU RARAM DEMIRARIS/OCEANI EST, ANNIS SUPERIORIB. ROMAE REPERTA AD/ ARCUM CAMPILIANI UBI ANTE NILI ET TIBERIS/ QUOR. NUNC IN VATICANO INTRA PONTIFICUM/HORTIS VISUNTUR IMAGINES. SED HUIUSCE/SPECTATU DIGNUM SIMULACHRUM NUNC/ IN AEDIBUS IO. BAPTISTAE ET IO. VINCENTII/FABIORUM ROMAE AD SARRAE AREAM VIS/ITUR INTERIM. QUOD HUNC IN MODUM/ TIBI REPRHESENTATUR OCEANUS/NICOLAO BEATRICIO LOTHARINGO GRATIAS HABE VALE ROMAE/ MDLX
Top left is the following inscription:
AMICE QUAM TU HIC EFFIGIEM SPECTATU RARAM DEMIRARIS/OCEANI EST, ANNIS SUPERIORIB. ROMAE REPERTA AD/ ARCUM CAMPILIANI UBI ANTE NILI ET TIBERIS/ QUOR. NUNC IN VATICANO INTRA PONTIFICUM/HORTIS VISUNTUR IMAGINES. SED HUIUSCE/SPECTATU DIGNUM SIMULACHRUM NUNC/ IN AEDIBUS IO. BAPTISTAE ET IO. VINCENTII/FABIORUM ROMAE AD SARRAE AREAM VIS/ITUR INTERIM. QUOD HUNC IN MODUM/ TIBI REPRHESENTATUR OCEANUS/NICOLAO BEATRICIO LOTHARINGO GRATIAS HABE VALE ROMAE/ MDLX
Content (object)
statue
Dimensions
height (actual size): 342mm
width (actual size): 488mm
width (actual size): 488mm
Materials & techniques note
copper engraving on paper
Production
Person
Beatrizet, Nicolas, c.1507/15 - after 1573 (Engraver)
Date
1560
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Huelsen (62A)