Four Butterflies

1646

Wenceslaus Hollar

Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.1 × 11.8 cm (3 3/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 8.2 × 11.9 cm (3 1/4 × 4 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.4948

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 922, 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. 2173, 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. 922, state i/iii.

Inscriptions

in plate, at bottom center: WHollar fecit / ex Collectione / Arundeliana, / 1646; verso, lower left, in graphite, by a later hand: P.2173; verso, lower right, in graphite, by a later hand: 637

Wikidata ID

Q65026352


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