[Scholar and putti measuring the Colossus of Rhodes]

[Gallé, Theodore, 1571?-1633]

(After) Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.

[Plantin, Martina, 1550-1616]

[Aguilón, François de, 1567-1617] (Author)

Graphic

[Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Viduam et Filios Io. Moreti]

Antwerp]

[1613]

1 title page : Engraving ; plate mark 100 x 143 mm. on sheet 359 x 235 mm.

Paper

Latin

Belgium

In the upper left corner, the page number: "105"; At the top of the page the name of the author: "Francisci Agvilonii e societate Iesv"; Below the title: "Opticorvm Liber Secvndvs: De radio optico et horoptere"; Below the engraving; Below the "Argvmentvm: "Expositis [...] propriæ"

Pr. [12] of: "Aguilón, François de, 1567-1617,OPTICORVM LIBRI SEX, 1613 "

Commentary of the British Museum: "Vignette showing a scholar standing at left and trying to calculate the height of the Colossus of Rhodes by measuring the angular size, assisted by several putti holding instruments; unsigned; after Peter Paul Rubens; illustration to the second book of Franciscus Aguilon's "Opticorum" (Antwerp: 1613). c.1613 Engraving"; Not mentionned in the bibliography

Fear

Optical instruments
Measures
Horology
Rodhes
Scholar
Cherubs (Art)
Putti
Figure drawing
Seeing
Landscape
Trees
Architecture

Measures
Rhodes (Greece)

Biblioteca Corsiniana

Fondo Corsini

142.I.17_lib.2_p.105_title-page[2]_tav.[12]

Link to mother card

142.I.17_frontispiece_p.[III]_and_lib.1_to_lib.6_p.1-p.684_tav.[1]-[569]

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