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Wenceslaus Hollar
Titlepage (Muscarum scarabeorum...varie figure) 1646
etching
7.9 × 11.5 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
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Titlepage
(Muscarum scarabeorum...varie figure)
1646
for Muscarum scarabeorum...varie figure (Various types of flying insects and beetles)
Medium
etching
Measurements
7.9 × 11.5 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Wenceslaus Hollar was born in Prague and grew up in the artistic milieu at the court of Rudolf II. In 1636 he joined the entourage of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, the renowned English art collector and patron. Hollar became one of the most significant early printmakers in England, where he produced etchings of his own design as well as those reproducing the works of others. This series of etchings copies a set of coloured drawings of insects in Arundel’s collection and reflects the interest among collectors at this time in representations of natural history specimens. The layout of the moths, butterflies and insects on the page follows a tradition established by the Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel.
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Parthey 2164; Pennington 2164 i
Edition
1st state
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) c.: Muscarum Scarabe: / orum, Verminum qB Varie Figure & Formæ, omnes primo and vivum colo / ribus depictæ & ex Collectione Arun / delian a Wenceslao Hollar aqua forti aeri / insculptae, Antverpiæ. Anno, 1646,
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: WHollar fect. 1646
inscribed in pencil l.c.: /u/
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.r.: l (underlined)
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.-l.r.: 23 n No 6 H
Accession Number
1278.412-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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