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ID: 700000930
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000930
Record Type: Movable Work
Socrates (line engraving (print); Thomas Trotter (English painter, ca. 1750-1803); Published: 1788; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 567763; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: 2000.PR.16* (bx.1,f.6))
Note: Inscription in the lower right corner of plate: 43; Thomas Trotter, an engraver and painter in London, studied with William Blake and created prints after portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds; The engraving of Socrates after Peter Paul Rubens was also issued with: Lavater, John Caspar. Essays on physiognomy ...., executed by, or under the inspection of Thomas Holloway (London : Printed for John Murray ..., 1792); Forms part of the Leo Steinberg collection of prints (Special Collections accn. no. 2000.PR.16); Library has another impression of the engraving bound with: Lavater, John Caspar. Essays on physiognomy ...., executed by, or under the inspection of Thomas Holloway (London : Printed for John Murray ..., 1792, v. I, facing page 166). Publication: London] : Published as the Act directs by T. Holloway, Nov.r 20 1788.
Titles:
Socrates (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)
Socrates; [graphic] / drawn by Sir Peter Paul Rubens ; engraved by T. Trotter. (C,U,undetermined,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
line engraving (print) [300041352] (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))
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: 1788

Creator Display:
Thomas Trotter (English painter, ca. 1750-1803) [preferred,GRISC]
printmaker Trotter, Thomas (English painter, ca. 1750-1803) [500016285]
publishers Holloway, Thomas (British painter and engraver, 1748-1827) [500015192]
painter Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish painter, 1577-1640) Extent: work depicted [500002921]
Holloway, Thomas (British painter and engraver, 1748-1827) [500015192]
Lavater, Johann Kaspar (Swiss painter and cleric, 1741-1801) [500002752]
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: 567763; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: 2000.PR.16* (bx.1,f.6)
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)
Display Materials: 1 print: line 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>)
line engraving (printing process) [300053231]
.......(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: platemark 27.8 x 24.2 cm, on sheet 30.4 x 25.9 cm
General Subject:
portraits (preferred)
another work

Specific Subjects:
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)
Socrates (Ancient Greek philosopher, ca. 469-399 BCE) [500260248]
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Provenance: Steinberg, Leo; stein purchase
Inscriptions: Socrates drawn by Sir Peter Paul Rubens ; engraved by T. Trotter.; Inscription in the lower right corner of plate: 43.
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
Socrates........ [GRISC,VP]
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 567763
Socrates; [graphic] / drawn by Sir Peter Paul Rubens ; engraved by T. Trotter......... [GRISC]
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]
....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Note:
English ..... [GRISC]
..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
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