ID: 700000928 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000928	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Lvcivs Annaevs Seneca (mezzotint (print); John Faber the Younger (ca. 1695-1756), Thomas Bowles (ca. 1...; Published: 1700s; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 567662; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: 2000.PR.16* (bx.1,f.3))

Note: The portraitist John Faber the Younger, son of the Netherlandish draftsman and engraver John Faber (d. 1721), created prints in London in the mezzotint technique; The mezzotint after Peter Paul Rubens is inscribed in the plate's lower margin: ... An excellent Stoick Philosopher who wrote several Tracts of Philosophy with so divine a Quill, that some Fathers esteem him as a good Christian / & St. Hierom. inserts him in his Catalogue of sacred Authors. He was Uncle to Lucan the Poet, & Tutor to Nero the Tyrant ..; Forms part of the Leo Steinberg collection of prints (Special Collections accn. no. 2000.PR.16).

Titles:

Lvcivs Annaevs Seneca (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

Portrait bust of Seneca (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

mezzotint (print) [300041356] (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, engravings (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))

print (visual work) [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: 1700s

Creator Display:

John Faber the Younger (ca. 1695-1756), Thomas Bowles (ca. 1712-after 1753); after Peter Paul Rubens [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Faber, John, the younger (Dutch printmaker, ca. 1695-1756, active in England) [500021840]

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

publisher Bowles, Thomas (British draftsman and engraver, ca. 1712-after 1753) [500003830]

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: 567662; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: 2000.PR.16* (bx.1,f.3)

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

Other: Publication: London [7011781] Greater London (metropolitan area), England (country), United Kingdom (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Address Note: next y.e Chapter House in St Pauls Church Yard

Display Materials: 1 print: mezzotint

	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>)

	mezzotint (process) [300053233]
	.......(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, engraving (printing process))

Dimensions: plate mark 35.3 x 25.5 cm, on sheet 35.4 x 25.6 cm

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

human figures

another work

Specific Subjects:

	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Roman philosopher and statesman, born ca. 4 BCE, died 65 CE) [500354133]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	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: Lvcivs Annaevs Seneca P.P. Rubens delin.t ; J. Faber fecit.; ... An excellent Stoick Philosopher who wrote several Tracts of Philosophy with so divine a Quill, that some Fathers esteem him as a good Christian / & St. Hierom. inserts him in his Catalogue of sacred Authors. He was Uncle to Lucan the Poet, & Tutor to Nero the Tyrant ...

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Lvcivs Annaevs Seneca	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 567662
Portrait bust of Seneca	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

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