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series Title

Muscarum scarabeorum

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 8.1 × 12 cm (3 3/16 × 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 913, State i/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.4939

Artists / Makers

Wenceslaus Hollar (artist) Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, on cartouche at center: Muscarum Scarabe= / orum, Vermiumque Varie Figure & / Formae, omnes primo ad vivum colo= / ribus depictae & ex Collectione Arun= / delian a Weceslao Hollar aquaforta aeri / insculptae, Atuerpiae, Anno, 1646. (Varied figures and shapes of flies, beetles and worms, all for the first time depicted from the life with their colours and engraved on copper with acid by Wenceslas Hollar from the Arundeliana collection at Antwerp in the year 1646); in plate, at bottom of cartouche: WHollar fecit 1646.; verso, lower left, in graphite, by a later hand: P. 2164; verso, lower right, in graphite, by a later hand: 637

Provenance

Count Giuseppe Archinto [1783-1861], Milan (Lugt 52); Arkady Alferoff [1811-1872], Bonn (Lugt 1727); Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt [c.1840-1914], Berlin (Lugt 2926); (C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 637); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Alferoff, Arkady Nikolaevitch
Archinto, Giuseppe Count
Goldschmidt, Rudolf Philip
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1982: Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, no. 2164, state i/ii.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 913, state i/ii.