Wenceslaus Hollar and Peeter van Avont
Peeter van Avont
1650
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 155 × 227 mm. (6 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
Plate: 140 × 208 mm. (5 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.2300
Inscribed: Recto: in image, center (in frame around his face), in plate "PETRUS VANDEN AVONT BELGA ANTVERPIANUS PICTOR."; in image, bottom left, in plate "Petrus van Avont inv."; in image, bottom right, in plate "W. Hollar fecit, 1651."
Markings: CM: Claghorn; WM: vase/pot with an s-shaped handle and a crescent and quatrefoil atop a five-lobed design topped with trefoils and a fleur-de-lis decoration in the base (probably paper produced in 17th century England based on very similiar comparisons in the Haewood watermarks book)
