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| Prospectus Tyburtinus (View of Tivoli) Ca. 1555-56 |
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| Inscribed in the plate “Propectus Tyburtinus” and with the publishers name “h.cock excud” 32 x 42 cm. With c. 5 mm. margin all round. |
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| Watermark; Small shield topped by a flower with a banderole with letters similar to Briquet 1844 (1562) Literature; Van Bastelaer ,1908, no.7, Hollstein III, 3. 2(III), Lebeer 1. 2(III), NHD. 49. 2(III) ( very early impression with the ruling lines still visible) Provenance; Prince Waldburg-Wolfegg (Lugt 2542). With a collectors mark in brown ink lower right corner FC interlaced ( not in Lugt) which appears on the group of very early impressions sold at auction by C.G. Boerner, Leipzig 1933. Several of those are now in the Boston Museum of fine Arts and illustrated in the Catalogue Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Drawings and Prints. Exhibition Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and Metropolitan Museum, New York in 2001. |
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| The title of the print Prospectus Tyburtinus, is often translated as View of the Tiber. The English title should however been read as View of Tivoli, as the Latin name for Tivoli is Tibur and the river there is not the Tiber but the Aniene. In the Large Landscape series this print takes a special place because it depicts a specific view. On a rock in the centre of the print a small figure sketches, maybe meant to depict the artist at work. | ||||
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