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Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects
Public Domain

Wenceslaus Hollar

Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

1640

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Wenceslaus Hollar

Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

1640

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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