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| Hieronymus Cock Title page - Views of Roman Ruins printed at Antwerp in 1551 etching, engraving Rijksmuseum |
Hieronymus Cock (1518-1570) – enterprising son of a family of Antwerp artists – traveled to Rome in 1546 and stayed two years, drawing and studying what he found there. The etchings he produced back at home appeared for sale in 1551. The study of his etchings demonstrates how much more there was to find of the ancient surviving topography of built Rome in the days of Hieronymus Cock than would remain to be found in later centuries. There is a complete set of these at the Rijksmuseum. In later decades the images were recut and reprinted several times, with the result that later versions are much more widely available, but also degraded in quality
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| Hieronymus Cock Colosseum 1551 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Colosseum 1550 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Colosseum 1551 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Colosseum 1551 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Colosseum 1551 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Colosseum 1551 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Colosseum, with Palatine Hill in the distance 1551 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Palatine Hill 1550 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Septizonium and Colosseum 1551 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Baths of Diocletian 1550 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Baths of Caracalla 1551 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Basilica of Constantine 1551 etching Rijksmuseum |
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| Hieronymus Cock Forum Romanum 1551 etching Rijksmuseum |