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Wenceslaus Hollar

Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Wenceslaus Hollar after Hans Holbein the Younger after Abraham van Diepenbeeck

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with border "Democritus and Heraclitus" (Pennington 233A)

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4897

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 1148, State i/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 588); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1982

  • Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1148, state i/iv.

Wikidata ID

Q64962482

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