Two Butterflies, a Wasp, and a Moth

1646

Wenceslaus Hollar

Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G24

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.1 × 12.1 cm (3 3/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 8.3 × 12.2 cm (3 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.4945

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 919, State i/iii

  • Series Title

    Muscarum Scarabeorum, Vermiumque Varie Figure & Formae

Artwork history & notes

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

Bibliography

1982

  • Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, no. 2170, state i/iii.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 919, state i/iii.

Inscriptions

in plate, at lower left: WHollar fecit ex Collectione Arundeliana; verso, lower left, in graphite, by a later hand: 2170; verso, lower right, in graphite, by a later hand: 637

Wikidata ID

Q65026349

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