• Jacobus Bos (engraver (printmaker))
• Antoine Lafréry (publisher)

Perspective of the Farnese Hercules in a niche, Rome

printed 1562

• record drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 49.7 x 34.7 cm (19 9/16 x 13 11/16 in.)

DR1979:0300

• line drawing

• perspective drawing

• general view
• exterior view

- Sheet has an old horizontal fold through c. and an offset image of an unidentified print on the verso.

inscribed and signed - by the engraver, in the plate on the image, l.r.: "Iacobus Bossius Belga incidit" [on statue base] inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate on the image, l.r.: with an inscription in greek on the statue; and in the plate below the image, b.: "Omnium elegantissimum Herculis signum Gliconis Atheniensis peritissimi artificis manu fabre factù, Quod Pauolo iij. Pont. max.o in / thermarum Antoninianar ruderibus inventum et in domus farnesianae ad campum Florae interiori porticu locatum Ant. Lafrerius / Sequanus aeneis formis diligenter expressit Anno M D LXII" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, u.r.: "57"

• architecture
• sculpture