The Count of Gondomar
1750 - 1820. Etching, Stipple engraving, Burin on laid paper.Not on display
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02-06-2026
- Richard Cooper - Engraver
- London, 1730 - London, 1820 - Engraver
- Johannes Priwitzer (The original work, according to inscriptions, attributed to: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)
Not on display
Technical data
- Inventory number
- G002299
- Authors
- Richard Cooper -Engraver-; Johannes Priwitzer (The original work, according to inscriptions, attributed to: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)
- Title
- The Count of Gondomar
- Date
- 1750 - 1820
- Technique
- Etching; Stipple engraving; Burin
- Support
- Laid paper
Second support: Wove paper - Dimension
- Height: 656 mm; Width: 454 mm; Ancho segundo soporte: 540 mm; Alto segundo soporte: 750 mm; Height of the plate mark: 530 mm; Width of the plate mark: 330 mm
- Provenance
- Collection of Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, I Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai (1800-1886), United Kingdom; heirs of Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, United Kingdom; Eduardo Moreda; Artemis Fine Arts Limited, London; acquisition 2000.
- Entry date
- 2000
Bibliography +
Velázquez en blanco y negro, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 2000, pp. 212.
Obras adscritas al Museo Nacional del Prado en el año 2000, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XIX, 2001, pp. 204.
Urrea, Jesús, Valladolid Capital de la Corte (1601-1606), Ayuntamiento, 2002, pp. 92-94.
Other inventories +
Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 2563.
Inscriptions +
[En la columna derecha, arriba del todo, apenas legible:] ÆTATIS SUÆ / 54. [Más abajo:] FACIEBAT / 16[21?] [por encima de la pluma del sombrero:] OSAR MORIR / DA LA VIDA.
Lettered in the plate.
Front, central right area
Engraved by R. Cooper
Lettered in the plate.
Front, lower area
Engraved by R. Cooper // The Conde de Gondomar. / EMBASSADOR from PHILIP K. of SPAIN, to K. JAMES 1st. of ENGLAND. / From a Painting by Velasquez. in the Collection of the M. of Buckingham at Stowe.
Lettered in the plate.
Front, lower area
[En la columna izquierda, apenas legible:] DA LA VIDA / OSAR MORIR. [Debajo, en cinco líneas:] DON DIEGO SARMIENTO / [el resto ilegible].
Lettered in the plate.
Front, central left area
From a Painting by Velasquez.
Lettered in the plate.
Front, lower area
[Inscripción manuscrita ilegible]
Inscribed with black pencil.
Front, lower right corner
Visor 360
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