The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 1, 2022

Ruins of Rome

The Baths of Caracalla

1639

Bartholomeus Breenberg

(Dutch, 1599-1657)

Netherlands, 17th century

Etching

Support: Cream(1) laid paper

Sheet: 10.5 x 6.6 cm (4 1/8 x 2 5/8 in.); Platemark: 10.2 x 6.3 cm (4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1943.557

Catalogue raisonneĢ: Hollstein 13 (III.207)

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

upper right, in plate: BB f 163 ; VERSO, upper center, in pen and brown ink: 2100 ; upper center, in graphite: af[rp?]ige 143 ; center, in graphite: B 13 / Thermae of / Caracalla ; lower center, in graphite: C13783 / B13- ; lower center, in graphite: 7196 ; lower right, in graphite: c. 7196

Provenance
purchased from (Knoedler & Co., NY)
Exhibition history

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

Northern Landscape Traditions: 16th and 17th Century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.557