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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R1350
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Jacques d'Arthois, Flemish (Brussels, Belgium 1613 - 1686)
Published by Peeter van Avont, Flemish (1600-1652)
Title
The Bridge over the Waterfall
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Landscapes after Jacquqes' d'Arthois
Alternate Title: Bridge over a Waterfall
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1648
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/243704

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened and damaged at edges
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 14.8 × 20.7 cm (5 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, bottom margin, left, to left of center, and right: Iacques van Artois pinxit, / W: Hollar fecit, 1648. Antuerpiæ, / Petrus van Avont excudit,
  • drawing: verso, black chalk: light sketch of a man in seventeenth-century clerical dress, partial linear octagonal frame
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 2 x
  • inscription: verso, on old paper mend: K. 4.[?]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Randall Collection accession stamp (Lugt 2130)] 1208

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
i/iii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 996, Pennington 1208

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R1350
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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