Shell (Murex brandaris)
c. 1645
Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677
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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G24
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to platemark): 9.5 × 13.6 cm (3 3/4 × 5 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1992.17.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 1291, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Hugh Melville Howard [1883-1919], Delgamy (Lugt 1280b); (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 25-26 February 1936, no. 292); Dr. Francis Springell [1898-1974], Portinscale, Keswick, England; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1989, lot 109); (Susan Schulman and Carolyn Bullard, New York); purchased by NGA with funds from Edward William Carter and Hannah Locke Carter, 1992.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 20.
1998
A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998.
Bibliography
1982
Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
1996
The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1291, state only.
Inscriptions
recto: none; verso: at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: P2206
Markings
Hugh Melville Howard [Lugt 1280b]
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q75118184