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Arcus Monetalis Pars Posterior   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Theodoor van Thulden

After: Peter Paul Rubens
Published by: Theodoor van Thulden
Title
Arcus Monetalis Pars Posterior
Description
English: Plate 36: The Arch of the Mint: The Rear Face; an arch surmounted by a tree growing atop the boulders of Mount Potosí; at the centre is a large portal framed at the sides by bearded terms attached to piers and flanked by the river gods Condorillo and Marañón; niches below these two figures contain implements for coining money; in the niche above the centre opening sits Vulcan with hammer and tongs, forging a thunderbolt on the anvil; two coats of arms flank the centre niche, framed with a festoon of coins; at left two workmen strike the rocks with picks; opposite at right two men emerge from mine-shaft bearing loads of ore; above, monkeys and lizards clamber on the boulders; at the apex appears Hercules clubbing the dragon in the garden of the Hesperides, while Hispania plucks the golden apples from the tree and places them in the folds of her garment; after Peter Paul Rubens; illustration for Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus" (Antwerp, 1641)
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Depicted people Illustration to: Gaspar Gevaerts
Date 1635-1641 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 483 millimetres (plate-mark)
Height: 649 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 322 millimetres
Width: 543 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1884,0112.67
Notes

One of a series of forty-three plates illustrating Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus"; for further comments see 1884,0112.31. For comments on the front face of arch, see 1884,0112.66. Van Thulden's etching closely follows Rubens' two oil sketches for the rear façade, with minor alterations.

Lit: John Rupert Martin, The Decorations for the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, Corpus Rubenianum XVI, London, 1972, pp. 201-203, fig. 102.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1884-0112-67
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