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Bacchanalia of Children
Public Domain

Wenceslaus Hollar and Peeter van Avont

Bacchanalia of Children

1641

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Bacchanalia of Children

1641

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 157 × 229 mm. (6 3/16 × 9 in.) Plate: 149 × 217 mm. (5 7/8 × 8 9/16 in.) Mount: 172 × 257 mm. (6 3/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2303
Cataloged by British Museum as c. 1647. New Hollstein entry is undated.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom center, in plate "P. van Avont inv: WHollar fec:"; below image, bottom right corner, written in pencil on sheet "31"; below image, bottom left, written in pencil on the bottom left sheet margin, "[indecipherable]3."; below image, written in pencil on the bottom left of mount, "[indecipherable]"; above image, written in pencil on the top right corner of the mount "[indecipherable]"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Peeter van Avont

Flemish, 1600 - 1652
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