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Wenceslaus Hollar
Titlepage 1663
etching
17.4 × 27.4 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
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Titlepage
1663
for Animalium, Ferarum, & Bestiarum, Florum, Fructuum (Various images of birds & beats, flowers & fruits, butterflies & worns all drawn from life)
Medium
etching
Measurements
17.4 × 27.4 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Parthey 2064; Pennington 2064 ii
Edition
2nd state
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.c.: ANIMALIUM, FERARUM, & BESTIARUM, FLORVM, FRUCTVVM, / Muſcarum, Vermiumq: Icones variæ, omnes' ad vivum delineatæ, per / Wenceſlaum Hollar, in lucem editæ a Petro Stent, Londini, A° 1663 / A New and perfect Book of Beaƒts, Flowers Fruits, butterflies, other Vermine, Exactly drawne after ye (e in superscript) life naturall, by W: Hollar, / Printed and are to be sould, by Peter Stent, at the White Horƒe in Filtƒpurr / street without New-gate, London, A° 1663
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: W. Hollar sculp: 1663
inscribed in pen and ink below image l.l.: No 36
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.: ) Qu A° 1663 (...illeg.) (Qu underlined) / P. 2064 (P underlined)
stamped in ink on reverse l.l.: R (not in Lugt)
stamped in purple ink on reverse c.l.: NATIONAL GALLERY / OF VICTORIA (in oval) (Lugt 1932g)
Accession Number
1278.423-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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