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Birds Mobbing an Owl
Public Domain

Wenceslaus Hollar and Francis Barlow

Birds Mobbing an Owl

1657

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Birds Mobbing an Owl

1657

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (Trimmed within platemark): 128 × 182 mm. (5 1/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2392

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom left, in plate "F.B.in: W.H.f."; in image, top right corner, in plate "57" Verso: bottom left corner, in brown ink "o.P.118No.87."; lower left center, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil with "6326"; bottom right, in pencil "P. 2134(11); lower right corner, in brown ink "38022"; lower right, in pencil "JRW" (?) (unidentified); lower right, in pencil "240" (?)

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

1606–1676

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Francis Barlow

1625–1703

British, c. 1626 - 1704
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