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Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

Wenceslaus Hollar

Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

1640-1650

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Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

Wenceslaus Hollar

Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

Wenceslaus Hollar

Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

1640-1650

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 131 × 192 mm. (5 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.) Plate: 120 × 179 mm. (4 3/4 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2418

Inscribed: Verso: lower left, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil with "6322" inside and "20" beside it

Markings: CM: Claghorn; WM: partial, indecipherable watermark

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

1606–1676

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM
Wenceslaus Hollar, Claudine Stella, and others
Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
1664–1674
SWALLOW-TAILED HAWK
Julius Bien and John James Audubon
Swallow-Tailed Hawk
1859
THE LAST SUPPER
Wenceslaus Hollar, Claudine Stella, and others
The Last Supper
1664–1674
THE STUDENT RECEIVING MONEY FROM HIS BROTHER, THE PRIEST
Alphonse Adolphe Gery-Bichard and Luc Olivier Merson
The Student Receiving Money from his Brother, the Priest
19th century
THE FOUR WINDMILLS
Wenceslaus Hollar and Jan Brueghel the Younger
The Four Windmills
1649
OUR GRANDMOTHERS
John Thomas Biggers and Limited Editions Club
Our Grandmothers
1993
PETER VON SERIN, HUNGARIAN GENERAL
Unknown Artist and Wenceslaus Hollar
Peter von Serin, Hungarian General
2000–1887
JEAN AND BROTHER (ARTIST'S CHILDREN)
Edward L. Loper Sr.
Jean and Brother (Artist's Children)
1936–1946
HOLY FAMILY
Wenceslaus Hollar and Joseph Heintz II
The Virgin and Child, with St. Elizabeth and St. John
1626
BROTHER AND SISTER IN THE FOREST
John Henry Adams Jr.
Brother and Sister in the Forest
1906
A TULIP, A CARNATION AND ROSES, WITH SHELLS AND INSECTS, ON A LEDGE
Balthasar van der Ast
A Tulip, a Carnation and Roses, with Shells and Insects, on a Ledge
1629–1638