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The Holy Family with St. John

Wenceslaus Hollar, Pietro Buonaccorsi [Perino del Vaga]

The Holy Family with St. John

1641

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Wenceslaus Hollar, Pietro Buonaccorsi [Perino del Vaga]

The Holy Family with St. John

1641

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 219 × 170 mm. (8 5/8 × 6 11/16 in.) Plate: 215 × 165 mm. (8 7/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2280

Inscribed: Recto: in image, top left corner, in plate "Perino del Vago inv: / Wenceslaus Hollar Bohem fecit Londini 1642 / Ex Collectione Arundeliana / Cum Privelegio Regis"; below image, lower center, in plate "Virgo PRÆSENTATISS [...] Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemus"; below image, bottom right "H. Van der Borcht excudit"; below image, bottom left corner, in pen and ink "[indecipherable]" Verso: lower left, in pencil "a1 49" (?); lower right, in pencil "170[indecipherable]85 7/6"; bottom right, in pencil "P. 134"; bottom right corner, in pencil "10[cut off by strip of paper paster atop]"; top left, in pen and ink "5944"; top, in faint pencil "[indecipherable]"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; WM: partial, largely indecipherable but possibly a horn in a shield wtih a crown

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Pietro Buonaccorsi [Perino del Vaga]

Italian, 1500/1-1546/7
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