Author: Hondius, Hendick I (1573-ca. 1649)
Title: [Antique print, etching and engraving] [14] Mathys Cock (Pictorum aliquot celebrium, præcipué Germaniæ Inferioris, effigies; series title), published 1610, 1 p.
Description: Portrait of Mathys Cock. In the background a painting with a landscape. 14th plate of the series; I part. Inscription on the bottom: 'MATTHIÆ COCO ANVERPIAN. PICTORI. / HIERONYMI FRATRI. / Tu quoque, Matthia, sic pingere rura sciebas, / Ut tibi vix dederint tempora nostra parem. / Ergo, quod artifices inter spectaris et ipse, / Quos immortalis Belgica laude colit ; / Non in te pietas tantem fraterna, sed arti / Efficit et merito laus tribuenda tuae.' Copy in reverse to Cock 1572. Engraving trimmed on plate mark; total: 190 x 122; pasted on cardboard; Hollstein 136; New Hollstein (Hondius) 95

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