Francisco de Moncada, Marques de Aytona (1586-1635) on horseback (after Van Dyck)
Stefano Tofanelli (Lucca 1752 - Lucca 1812)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1793
Materials
Paper, Wood
Measurements
428 x 630 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 452678
Summary
Print; Engraving - Francisco de Moncada, Marques de Aytona (1586-1635) on horseback (after Van Dyck). Engraved by Tofanelli (Lucca 1752 - Lucca 1812) and published by Raphael Morghen, Rome 1793. Transcribed label on reverse G.W.W. Blathwayt from W.T.Blathwayt, Innsbruck June 1899. Full length portrait of man mounted on horse. Latin inscription below describes his life & role as a Spanish diplomat, soldier and writer, and governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
Full description
Imago equestris FRANCISCI DE MONCADA Marchionis Aytonae. Corus Hispanicis in Belgio Praefecti, atque historiarum scriptoris quam e praeclara VAN DYCKII tabula in aere cestro a se deformatam. PII SEXTI PONT. MAX. RESTITUTORIS ARTIUM. NOMINI MAIESTATIQUE inscribit RAPHAEL MORGHEN. Tabula adservatur in Pinacotheca Exemi Principis e ALOYSII BRASCHI ONESTI Ducis Nemorensium. Pontificiae levis armaturae equitam Capilanei e Magnatibus Hispaniae Primae Classis. Equitis Magnae Crucis Regii SS Mae Conceptionis Ordinis, Magni Chamberlani, Religionis SS Mauritu et Lazari, Equitis, Hierosol &c
Makers and roles
Stefano Tofanelli (Lucca 1752 - Lucca 1812), engraver (printmaker) Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist Raphael Morghen (Naples 1758 - Florence 1833), engraver and publisher