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1644-1652
Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 11.7 × 18.3 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.)
sheet: 12.7 × 19.4 cm (5 × 7 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.4951
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 1265, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Fritz Rumpf [1856-1927], Potsdam (Lugt 2161); (C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 638); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1971
A Selection of 17th Century Intaglio Prints from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971-1972, no. 21.
1972
Seventeenth Century Prints, Western Maryland College, Westminster, MD, 1972, no cat.
Bibliography
1982
Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, no. 2176, state only.
1996
The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1265, state only.
Inscriptions
center, in plate: Diversae / INSECTORUM / ALIGERORUM, / Vermiumque etc, Figurae, / Ad Naturam delineatae / A WENCESLAO HOLLAR / BOHEMO; bottom right, in plate: 1
Wikidata ID
Q65026355