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Mercury and Aeneas
Public Domain

Wenceslaus Hollar, Franz Cleyn, and others

Mercury and Aeneas

c. 1654

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Mercury and Aeneas

c. 1654

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (Trimmed within platemark): 253 × 191 mm. (9 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2292

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom left, in plate "F. Cleyn inv. W. Hollar fecit,"; in image, bottom right, in plate "Æ.4.2.380." Verso: top center, in pen "752"; center, in pen "357"; center, in pencil (?) "Gl" (?); lower left, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil with "6271" inside; bottom left corner, in pencil "2 [indecipherable]"; bottom center, in pencil "357"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677

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Artist

Franz Cleyn

German, 1582-1658

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Publisher

John Ogilby

(English, 1600-1676)

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