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The Three Furies

Wenceslaus HOLLAR, Francis CLEYN (after)
The Three Furies
 (1657)
frontispiece for The Triumph and Unity of Truth, in Two Treatises by John Robinson, published by Thomas Johnson, London, 1657

Medium
etching

Measurements
12.9 × 8.9 cm (image) 13.5 × 9.0 (sheet, trimmed within platemark)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 1631; Pennington 605

Edition
only state

Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Fran: Cleyn delin:
printed in ink l.r.: W. Hollar fecit.
printed in ink (in image) (in book and scrolls) u.c.-l.r.: (Latin text)

Accession Number
1278.1200-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Literary and Text Religion and Mythology

Subjects (specific)
bellows (fire controlling equipment) candles frontispieces (illustrations) Furies (Roman characters) globes (cartographic spheres) Sun (star) women (female humans)

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