R1369: Wenceslaus Hollar
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- R1369
- People
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Johannes Meyssens, Flemish (1612-1670)
- Title
- Wenceslaus Hollar
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Image de Divers Hommes Desprit Sublime (1649)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1649
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/243650
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 15.8 × 11 cm (6 1/4 × 4 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin: WENCESLAUS HOLLAR / Gentilhomme ne a Prage l'an 1607, a esté de nature fort inclin pr l'art de meniature principa= / lement pour esclaircir, mais beaucoup retardé par son pere, lan 1627, il est party de Prage aÿant / demeure en divers lieux en Allemaigne, il ç est addonne pour peu de temps a esclaircir et aplicquer / leau forte, estant party de Coloigne avec le Comte d'Arondel vers Vienne et dillec par Prage / vers l'Angleterre, ou aÿant esté serviteur domesticque du Duc de Iorck, il s'est retire de la a cause / de la guerre a Anvers ou il reside encores. / Ie. Meyssens pinxit et excudit.
- watermark: Strasbourg lily
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Randall Collection accession stamp [(Lugt 2130)] 1369
- inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: £ 1.5.- / 4207 / 1744[struck through] / P 1419 / XE[underlined] / l u l / no 10-
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- ii/v
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 1058, Pennington 1419
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
- Object Number
- R1369
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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