The Obelisk in the Piazza Navona
François de Poilly I, French, 1623 - 1696
1651
Engraving on wove paper
Sheet: 28 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (71.8 × 49.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Ashley Kingsley Hardy, Class of 1894W
PR.948.80
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper center: OBELISCVM Ab IMP ANT Caracalla Roman Aduectum cum inter Circi Castrensis Rudera Confractus Diu Iacuisset / INNOCENTIUS DECIMVS PONT. OPT MAX Ad Fontis Foriq. Ornatum Transtulit Erexit/Anno Sal M.D.C.L.I Pontificatus sui VII.; lower left: Opus Equitis Ionnis Laurentij. Bernini; center: Palmorum romanorum Franciscus Poilly alla face Io Iacobus de Rubeis form. Romae con licenci de supe.
Provenance
Home of Judge Silas Hardy (1827-1912), Class of 1855, Keene, New Hampshire; to his son, Ashley Kingsley Hardy (1871-1940), Class of 1894, about 1912; to his wife, Adelaide Benton Sanford Hardy (1872-1964), Hanover, New Hampshire, about 1940; given to present collection, 1941.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. Loth, L'Oeuvre grave de Francois et Nicolas de Poilly d'Abbeville, Paris, 1994, no. 357.
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