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1644-1652

Wenceslaus Hollar

Associated Names
Wenceslaus Hollar

Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

The image shows two large butterflies with four smaller ones inside a bordered area featuring ornate scrollwork and text. The colors are monochromatic in shades of black, white, and gray. A large butterfly is in the lower-left corner, and another in the lower-right corner, each with circular patterns on their wings. Two smaller butterflies are at the top, and another smaller butterfly is near the center bottom. Text is centrally positioned with embellishments above and below.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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 Number

    1943.3.4951

  • 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

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