The Mocking of Ceres

1646

Wenceslaus Hollar

Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20 × 33.1 cm (7 7/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 31.2 × 24.3 cm (12 5/16 × 9 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.83.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 846

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased by NGA, 2020.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1982

  • Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982: no. 273

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 846

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: B22716; by later hand, lower right in graphite: EX

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