Two Moths and Six Insects

1646

Wenceslaus Hollar

Associated Names
Wenceslaus Hollar

Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Two large moths are positioned centrally in the image, one facing north at the top and the other facing south at the bottom. The color palette consists of black and white, as it is a monochrome illustration. Around the moths, there are smaller insects, including a small moth on the left, a bee below it, another small moth on the right, and beetles positioned at the top left and bottom right corners.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.3 × 11.9 cm (3 1/4 × 4 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 8.5 × 12.2 cm (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4946

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 920, State i/iii

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. 2171, 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. 920, state i/iii.

Inscriptions

in plate, at upper left: WHollar fecit ex Collectione / Arundeliana 1646.; verso, lower left, in graphite, by a later hand: P.2171; verso, lower right, in graphite, by a later hand: 637

Wikidata ID

Q65026350

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