Groenendael Abbey, 1647

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.5 x 21.6 cm (5 11/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

sheet: 16.9 x 23 cm (6 5/8 x 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 945, State i/iii

Accession Number

2010.127.1

Artists / Makers

Wenceslaus Hollar (artist) Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: WHollar fec 1647; along lower edge of plate: R.do admodum Dno. D: Petro Parys, Canonicorum Regularium Ordints S. Augustini Congregationis Windesemensis per Ger / manium inferiorem Commissario neo-non Ecclesiae B. Mariae in Viride Valle Priori dig:no hoc Monaterij sui simulacrum D..C.Q. Petrus van Arnout; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 11615 / R849 / B2931; 667; 1002, 8/1883

Provenance

Rudolf Peltzer, Cologne (1825-1910) (Lugt 2231). Chevalier Joseph-Guillaume-Jean Camberlyn, The Hague and Brussels, (1783-1861) (Lugt 514). Mrs. George A. Martin (not in Lugt). Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio. (Jan Johnson, Quebec); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Associated Names

Baldwin-Wallace College
Camberlyn, Jean
Johnson, Jan
Martin, George A. Mrs.
Peltzer, Rudolf

Bibliography

1982: Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, no. 849 i/iii

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 945, state i/iii.