ID: 700000927 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000927	Record Type: Movable Work

Democritus Gelasinus Abderites (engraving (print); Vorsterman, Lucas Emil (engraver, 1595-1675), after Peter Pa...; published ca. 1638; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 567631; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: 2000.PR.16* (bx.1,f.2))

Note: The engraving after a marble sculpture in Rubens's antiquities collection forms part of a suite of twelve antique busts engraved after drawings by Rubens; Forms part of the Leo Steinberg collection of prints (Special Collections accn. no. 2000.PR.16). Publication: [ca. 1638].

Titles:

Democritus Gelasinus Abderites (preferred,C,U,RP,Latin-P,U,U)

Democritvs Gelasinvs Abderites (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Bust of Democritus, after Peter Paul Rubens (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

engraving (print) [300041340] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

reproductive print [300041569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works))

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: published ca. 1638

Creator Display:

Vorsterman, Lucas Emil (engraver, 1595-1675), after Peter Paul Rubens [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Vorsterman, Lucas (Flemish printmaker, 1595-1675) [500014123]

artist Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish painter, 1577-1640) Qualifier: after Extent: work depicted [500002921]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 567631; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: 2000.PR.16* (bx.1,f.2)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: engraving

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: plate mark 26.1 x 21 cm, on sheet 35.3 x 26.4 cm

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

another work

history and legend

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	Democritus (Ancient Greek philosopher, ca. 460-ca. 370 BCE) [500353802]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	reproductive print [300041569]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works)) (AAT)

	busts (general, figures) [300047457]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

Provenance: Steinberg, Leo; stein purchase

Inscriptions: Democritus Gelasinus Abderites ex marmore antiquo / P.P. Rubens delin. ; L. Vorsterman sculp. "Cum priuilegiis Regis Christianissimi. / Principum Belgarum. et Ord. Batauiae."--engraved in the plate's lower margin. Annotated in brown ink on recto ("3") and on verso: 12 heads of Rubens / 00:6:00 / No. 48.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Democritus Gelasinus Abderites	........ [VP,GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 567631
Democritvs Gelasinvs Abderites	........ [GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Bust of Democritus, after Peter Paul Rubens	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) note

Subject: ....... [VP,GRISC]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Hollstein. Dutch and Flemish etchings XLIII.104.106

....................... Hymans. Lucas Vorsterman 103

Note:
English	..... [VP,GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)