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An Old Man and a Girl
Public Domain

Wenceslaus Hollar and Jan Hulsman

An Old Man and a Girl

1635

Scroll

An Old Man and a Girl

1635

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (Trimmed to platemark): 109 × 122 mm. (4 5/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2350

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom right, in plate "I. Hulsman inv: / WHollar fec: 1635"; in image, bottom right, in faded pencil "8682" Verso: bottom right corner, in red pencil (?) "14"; bottom center-left Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil with "6287"; center, in pencil "Hollar [indecipherable] P55 / no 2"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; WM: partial unidentifiable watermark with interlocking C's and another initial in between

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677

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Artist

Jan Hulsman

German, active 1634 - 1644

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