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Aristeus Overpowering Protus
Public Domain

Wenceslaus Hollar, Franz Cleyn, and others

Aristeus Overpowering Protus

1652

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Aristeus Overpowering Protus

1652

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (Trimmed within platemark): 255 × 190 mm. (10 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2290
Difficult to determine state because margin has been removed

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom left, in plate "F. Cleyn inv W. Hollar fecit 1653,"; in image, lower right, in pen (?) "[indecipherable]635" Verso: top center, in pen "756"; upper center, in pen "195"; center, in pencil "Cl"; lower left, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil with "6274" inside; lower left, in pencil "[indecipherable]"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

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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