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Portrait of Wenceslaus Hollar

Maker

(artist)
1612-1670

(engraver)
1612-1670

(publisher)
1612-1670

Title

Portrait of Wenceslaus Hollar

Date of Production

1649

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 16 cm
Width: 11.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2951.63

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, black ink: "117 WENCESLAUS HOLLAR // Gentilhomme ne a Prage l'an 1607, a este de nature fort inclin pr l'art de meniature principa: // lement pour esclaircir, mais beaucoup retarde par son pere, lan 1627, il est partis de Prage aijant // demeure en divers lieux en Allemaigne, il c 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 lAngleterre, ou ayant este serviteur domesticque du Duc de Iorck, il sest retire de la a cause // de la guerre a Anvers ou il reside encores. // Ie. Meyssens pinxit et excudit.".

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