Frontispiece Design from Corpus Inscriptionum

Jan Goeree (1670-1731), pen and grey ink, brush and brown and grey wash, c. 1707

A weeping Minerva is depicted here near a dilapitated statue of the city of Rome, surrounded by all manner of ancient remains. The drawing is the design for the title page from a collection of Roman inscriptions compiled by J. Gruter and published in 1707. The engraving was used once again in 1726, with a different text, as the frontispiece for a survey of the monuments of ancient Rome.

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-2012-7
  • Dimensionsheight 330 mm x width 225 mm
  • Physical characteristicspen in grijs, penseel in bruin en grijs