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The Mary Rose in a Sea Battle
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Wenceslaus Hollar

The Mary Rose in a Sea Battle

1669

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Wenceslaus Hollar

The Mary Rose in a Sea Battle

1669

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 366 × 414 mm. (14 7/16 × 16 5/16 in.) Plate: 360 × 400 mm. (14 3/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2318

Inscribed: Recto: excised from top left corner of image, in plate "A. The Mary Rose / [...] / O. A French Merchant."; in image, distributed throughout, in plate, labels for A-O; in image, center left, in plate "North"; in image, top center, in plate "East"; in image, center right, in plate "South"; in image, center bottom, in plate "West"; below image, lower right, in plate "W. Hollar delineauit et sculpsit"; below image, spans across the entire length, in plate "A True Relation of Capt. Kempthorn's Engagement, in the Mary-Rose, with Seven Algier Men of War / [...] / The next day in the evening, we ar- / riv'd in the Bay of Cadiz, being December 30. S.V. 1669."; above/beside image, top right corner, in pencil "Hollar"; below image, in pencil "24) P. 1247"; below image, bottom left corner, in pencil but partially torn away, "[indecipherable]1247" Verso: lower right quadrant, in pencil "P. 1247"; bottom right corner in pencil, "1247"; lower right, in pencil "[indecipherable] / P. 1247 / V.IV.29"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; WM: unidentified heart with initials "CD" (?) surmounted by a crown

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677

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