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Recumbent Lion

Wenceslaus Hollar, Albrecht Dürer

Recumbent Lion

1644

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Wenceslaus Hollar, Albrecht Dürer

Recumbent Lion

1644

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (Trimmed to platemark): 96 × 129 mm. (3 3/4 × 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2385

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom left corner, in plate: "Alb: Durer pinxit, / W. Hollar fecit ex Collectione / Arundeliana 1645"; in image, bottom right corner, in plate "1518 / AD" Verso: center, in pencil "P. 2094"; bottom left corner, in pencil "5599"; bottom left corner, in pencil "[indecipherable] XI.I_[indecipherable]"; bottom center in faded pencil (?) "607"; bottom right, in pencil "Hollar P 115 / [indecipherable]"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; possibly Hermann Weber (L.1383) WM: partial unidentifiable watermark with round border visible

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Albrecht Dürer

German, 1471-1528
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