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Neptune and Venus

Wenceslaus Hollar, Franz Cleyn, John Ogilby

Neptune and Venus

1648-1658

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Wenceslaus Hollar, Franz Cleyn, John Ogilby

Neptune and Venus

1648-1658

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 350 × 223 mm. (13 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.) Plate: 306 × 199 mm. (12 1/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2293
Evidence of text transfer

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom left corner, in plate "F. Cleyn inv: / W. Hollar fecit,"; below image, center left and right, in plate "Tum Saturnis hac [...] Tabula merito votiua,"; below image, bottom right margin,, in plate "Æneid L. 5" Verso: lower left corner, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil "6267"

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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