Wenceslaus Hollar
A Whale
c. 1669
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 181 × 108 mm. (7 1/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Plate: 170 × 102 mm. (6 11/16 × 4 in.)
Mount: 181 × 108 mm. (7 1/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.2387
Inscribed: Recto: in image, top center, in plate "A WHALE" Verso: lower center, in pencil "S. Folio 14 x 17" (?); lower right, in pencil "2123"; lower left, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil with "6329" inside; lower left corner, in pencil "2575"; bottom left, in pencil "L. 30.19.2387; lower left corner, in brown ink "86" (?)
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Reverend J. Burleigh James (L. 1425); John Tetlow (L.2868)
