Vespasianus, in an oval with bottom left and right a man cooked on the spit, plate 10 from "XII Caesarum Romanorum Imagines"
From a book with title plate and twelve prints with portraits of emperors set in strapwork borders with grotesques, by Hans Vredeman de Vries. The first edition, published by Gerard de Jode ca. 1565-69, was titled "Icones Duedecim Caesarum Romanum". The second edition, printed by Robert Bruneau and published by Johannes Baptista Vrints in 1603, includes text by Pierre François Sweerts and verse by Joannes Bocchius and Balthasar Moretus, with letterpress text on in the margins above and below the plate and on the verso of each folio.
Artwork Details
- Title: Vespasianus, in an oval with bottom left and right a man cooked on the spit, plate 10 from "XII Caesarum Romanorum Imagines"
- Series/Portfolio: XII Caesarum Romanorum Imagines
- Artist: After Hans Vredeman de Vries (Netherlandish, Leeuwarden 1527–1606 (?) Antwerp (?))
- Artist: Johannes van Doetecum I (Netherlandish, 1528/32–1605)
- Artist: Lucas van Doetecum (Netherlandish, active 1554–72, died before 1589)
- Publisher: Johannes Baptista Vrints (Netherlandish, active Antwerp, ca. 1575—1610)
- Printer: Robert Bruneau (Netherlandish, active Antwerp, ca. 1611)
- Author: Pierre François Sweerts (Netherlandish, 1567–1629)
- Published in: Antwerp
- Date: 1603
- Medium: Etching and engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 7 7/16 × 5 3/8 in. (18.9 × 13.7 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
- Object Number: 21.36.50(11)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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