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The Four Windmills

Wenceslaus Hollar, Jan Brueghel the Younger

The Four Windmills

1649

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Wenceslaus Hollar, Jan Brueghel the Younger

The Four Windmills

1649

Physical Qualities Etching and drypoint, Sheet: 126 × 181 mm. (4 15/16 × 7 1/8 in.) Plate: 121 × 174 mm. (4 3/4 × 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2316
State is difficult to determine because includes the "5" in the right corner from state ii but is missing that same state's "buyten Brussel.."

Inscribed: Recto: below image, left side of bottom margin, in plate "Brügel pinxit"; below image, right side of bottom margin, in plate "W. Hollar fecit, 1650, Ex Collectione Arundeliana ,"; below image, bottom right corner, in plate "5"; below image, bottom right, in pencil "7" Verso: lower left corner, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil with "6296"; lower center, in pencl "14-17"; lower right, in pencil "P. 1215 / [indecipherable]"; bottom center, in pencil "P 1215"; lower left, in pencil "[indecipherable]"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; WM: watermark

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Jan Brueghel the Younger

Flemish, 1601 - 1678
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