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series Title

Diversae insectorum

Medium

etching on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 1265, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.4951

Artists / Makers

Wenceslaus Hollar (artist) Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Image Use

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Inscription

center, in plate: Diversae / INSECTORUM / ALIGERORUM, / Vermiumque etc, Figurae, / Ad Naturam delineatae / A WENCESLAO HOLLAR / BOHEMO; bottom right, in plate: 1

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

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Rumpf, Fritz

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.