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Marcus Garrardus

Wenceslaus Hollar, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder

Marcus Garrardus

1643

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Wenceslaus Hollar, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder

Marcus Garrardus

1643

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (Trimmed within platemark): 165 × 108 mm. (6 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2338

Inscribed: Recto: below image, bottom center, in plate "MARCUS GARRADUS Pictor [...] ubi natus erat, Obÿt Londini; / January 19. Anno Domini 1635. Ætatisa, suæ 74."; below image, bottom left corner, in plate "hic ipse Marcus depinxit Ao1627."; below image bottom right corner, in plate "Wenceslaus Hollar Bolie, fecit Londini 1644 / aqua forti" Verso: center, in pencil "2"; lower center left, in light pencil "[indecipherable]"; lower center, in pencil '[indecipherable] P. 71 / [indeciphrable] 45"; lower left corner, in pencil "[indecipherable] 2/341" (?)

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder

Flemish, 1516/21 - c. 1604
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