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Four butterflies

Four butterflies
1646
from the Muscarum scarabeorum... (Various types of flying insects and beetles) series (c. 1646)

Medium
etching

Measurements
8.0 × 11.7 cm (plate) 9.1 × 12.7 cm (sheet)

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

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Parthey 2173; Pennington 2173 iii

Edition
3rd state

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: WHollar fecit / ex Collectione Arundeliana / 1646
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.r.: 12 (underlined)
stamped in purple ink on reverse c.: NATIONAL GALLERY / OF VICTORIA (in oval) (Lugt 1932g)

Accession Number
1278.411-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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