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The Three Windmills

Wenceslaus Hollar and Jan Brueghel the Elder

The Three Windmills

1650

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The Three Windmills

1650

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (Trimmed within platemark): 140 × 210 mm. (5 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.) Image: 135 × 208 mm. (5 5/16 × 8 3/16 in.) Mount: 262 × 282 mm. (10 5/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Carrie May Kurrelmeyer Zintl, Baltimore
Object Number 1992.51
The mount was likely ripped out of a bound book

Inscribed: Recto: below image, bottom left, in plate, "Johan: Brueghel inv:"; below image, bottom center, in plate "W. Hollar fecit,"; below image, bottom right, in plate "C. Galle exudit."; below image, below sheet on mount at left, in pencil , '1216 (pi symbol),'; below image, left of center on mount, in pencil "L" (?); below image, lower right on mount "M 10" Verso: top right, in pencil, partial "[cut off]16"

Markings: None

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

1606–1676

Bohemian, 1607-1677
Meet Wenceslaus Hollar

Artist

Jan Brueghel the Elder

1562–1624

Flemish, 1563-1625
Meet Jan Brueghel the Elder

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