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Three Peacocks

Wenceslaus Hollar and Francis Barlow

Three Peacocks

1657

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Three Peacocks

1657

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 162 × 234 mm. (6 3/8 × 9 3/16 in.) Plate: 131 × 194 mm. (5 3/16 × 7 5/8 in.) Image: 126 × 190 mm. (4 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2393

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom right, in plate "Barlow pinxit W. Hollar fec:"

Markings: CM: Claghorn; WM: vase/pot with an s-shaped handle and a crescent and quatrefoil atop a five-lobed design topped with trefoils and a fleur-de-lis decoration in the base (probably paper produced in 17th century England based on very similiar comparisons in the Haewood watermarks book)

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

1606–1676

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Francis Barlow

1625–1703

British, c. 1626 - 1704
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