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Aeneas and Dido in the Underworld

Wenceslaus Hollar, Franz Cleyn, John Ogilby

Aeneas and Dido in the Underworld

1648-1658

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Wenceslaus Hollar, Franz Cleyn, John Ogilby

Aeneas and Dido in the Underworld

1648-1658

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 348 × 220 mm. (13 11/16 × 8 11/16 in.) Plate: 300 × 192 mm. (11 13/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2294
Evidence of text transfer

Inscribed: Recto: below image, center left and right, in plate "Infelix Dido [...] Tabula merito votiua."; below image, bottom right, in plate "Æneids 16[indecipherable]"; in image, bottom right, in plate "Fra: Cleyn inv: WHollar fecit" Verso: lower left, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil "6272"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; WM: indecipherable watermark

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Franz Cleyn

German, 1582-1658
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Publisher

John Ogilby

(English, 1600-1676)
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