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Infants, One as Bacchus, Playing with Small Satyrs and a Goat

Wenceslaus Hollar, Peeter van Avont

Infants, One as Bacchus, Playing with Small Satyrs and a Goat

1641-1651

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Wenceslaus Hollar, Peeter van Avont

Infants, One as Bacchus, Playing with Small Satyrs and a Goat

1641-1651

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 158 × 227 mm. (6 1/4 × 8 15/16 in.) Plate: 140 × 208 mm. (5 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.) Mount: 180 × 247 mm. (7 1/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2304
Cataloged by British Museum as c. 1647. New Hollstein entry is undated.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom left corner, in plate, "P. van Avont inv."; in image, bottom right, in plate "WHollar fecit 16[indecipherable]."; below image, written in pencil on the bottom right corner margin "2[indecipherable]"; below image, bottom right corner of mount written very lightly in pencil, Claghorn diamond/lozenge with "[indecipherable]" number inside

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Peeter van Avont

Flemish, 1600 - 1652
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