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Five Butterflies

Wenceslaus Hollar

Five Butterflies

1645

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Wenceslaus Hollar

Five Butterflies

1645

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 85 × 122 mm. (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.) Plate: 80 × 118 mm. (3 1/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2404

Inscribed: Recto: in image, top left, in plate, "WHollar fecit ex Collectione ex Arundeliana / 1646" Verso: center right, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil with "6322" inside and "2" beside it

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

1606–1676

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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