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] (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-)