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- Title:
Franciscus de Moncada
- Additional Title(s):
Francisco de Moncada
- Part Of:
- Date:
- ca. 1635
- Medium:
- Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 16 3/16 × 13 1/2 inches (41.1 × 34.3 cm), Sheet: 13 × 10 1/16 inches (33 × 25.6 cm), Image: 9 9/16 × 6 3/4 inches (24.3 × 17.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "Watermark 8d | 1675-90 | Special G.H. Series | W.117 | 4th state 4 | Wib[...]al mentions that he | possesses a beautiful impression | in this state & on this paper"; center: "ex c.24962"
Watermark: Crown, fleur-de-lis; collector’s mark: Joannes Michiel Rysbrack (Lugt 1912); collector's mark, verso: George Ambrose Cardew (Lugt 1134)
Lettered, lower center: "EXCELLMUS. D. FRANCISCUS DE MONCADA. MARCHIO AYTONÆ, COMES OSSONÆ. VICE- | COMES CABRERÆ ET BAAS, MAGNUS SENESCALCUS REGNI ARRAGONIÆ PHILIPPO IV, | HISPANIAR. INDIARUMO REGI A CONSILIIS STATUS, EIVSDEMO LEGATUS EXTRAORDIN ET | SUPREMUS MILITIÆ TERRA MARIO, IN BELGIO PRÆFECTUS."; lettered, lower left: "IN EIUSDEM MARCHIONIS | EFFIGIEM | EPIGRAMMA. | Arragonum sacro natusde Sanguine REGUM | MARCHIO, MONCADÆ Flos, Columenque Domus: | Vindice quo priscum revocauit BELGICA Robur; | Quo Duce Compressum BOUCHINIENSE Nesas; | Ardua qui veteris calcans vestigia DRUSI, | Edocuit fractumm vincula ferre MOSAM; | Et Batavum elatos frænans, Sueonumisque Furores | Asseruit forti Regia iura manu; | Sic oculos vultusque gerit. Sic Martius ardor | Et Phœbi mixtus Spirat in ore Decor."; lettered, lower right: "BREDA A BATAVORUM OBSIDIONE LIBERATA | ANN.M.DC.XXXIV. Septembr. die VIII Duchi Excellmi. Principis | D. FRANCISCI DE MONCADA. MARCHIONIS AYTONÆ & c. | Belgarum & Burgundionum Gubernatoris. | Igneus Auroræ venientis nuncius *ÆTHON | Ceu fugat adspectu nubila cuncsa suo, | Haud secius AYTONÆ generosus MARCHIO BREDÆ | Dum celer obsessæ Fulminis insfar ades F; | Attonitum validis pellit de mænibus hos Fem | Eminus & turpem cogit inire fugam. | MONCADA ô felix Belgi Tutela Sabusque, | Captiuas MOSÆ qui Tibi subdis aquas; | Armis cernenti Tibi quis certauerit? Hostem | Sobius pellit Nominis Vinbra Tui. | GEVARTIUS Pos."; lettered, lower right: "D. A. Van Dyck Eques. Pinxit. | Vorsterman Sculpsit"; lettered, lower right: "*A [...] | Equus Solis | Ouid. a. | Metam."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10554
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:28074
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