Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

Public Domain

Wenceslaus Hollar

Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

c. 1646

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Wenceslaus Hollar

Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

Wenceslaus Hollar

Swallow-Tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects

c. 1646

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

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Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677

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