Venus
Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 9.5 x 14.2 cm (3 3/4 x 5 9/16 in.)
sheet: 9.9 x 15 cm (3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2011.76.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 845, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Emma Regina Martin, 1833(?): Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH. (Susan Schulman, New York); purchased 2011 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1982
Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
1993
The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 845, state only.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: W. Hollar fecit; lower center in plate: VENVS; lower right in plate: ex Collectione Arundelliana / Adam Elsheimer pinxit; lower center in by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: O. Venus after / Elsheimer / P. 271; by later hand, upper center in brown ink: Marsh E(not deciphered)ht. 1833
Wikidata ID
Q76558916