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Wenceslaus Hollar, Hans Holbein The Younger, Adam Alexius Bierling

Portrait of a Man

1648

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Wenceslaus Hollar, Hans Holbein The Younger, Adam Alexius Bierling

Portrait of a Man

1648

Physical Qualities Etching and drypoint, Sheet (Trimmed to platemark): 133 × 93 mm. (5 1/4 × 3 11/16 in.) Mount: 147 × 115 mm. (5 13/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2349

Inscribed: Recto: below image, bottom, in plate "HHolbein inv; WHollar fecit. 1649. Adam Alexius Bierling exc."; below image, bottom left, written in pencil below plate "12 GV [indecipherable]"; below image, bottom right, written in pencil below plate in a Claghorn diamond/lozenge since erased "[indecipherable]"; below image, bottom right, written in pencil within plate area "[indecipherable]" number; below image, bottom left, written in pencil in the plate area "C[indecipherable]o"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Hans Holbein The Younger

German, 1497-1543
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Publisher

Adam Alexius Bierling

possibly Dutch, c. 1625 - c. 1675
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