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Two Swans
Public Domain

Wenceslaus Hollar and Francis Barlow

Two Swans

c. 1658

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Two Swans

c. 1658

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 169 × 225 mm. (6 5/8 × 8 7/8 in.) Plate: 139 × 190 mm. (5 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.) Image: 130 × 197 mm. (5 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series from the series Diversae avium species
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2398
BMA, "Sea-Life in the BMA," 7 July - 23 September, 1981.

Jay Fisher, BMA traveling exhibition, "Sea Life from The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1982, circulated around the state, cat 6.

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom right, in plate "F. Barlow inv: W. Hollar fecit,"; below image, bottom left, in pencil "[indecipherable]"

Markings: WM: unidentified watermark of a vase or pot

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

Bohemian, 1607-1677

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Artist

Francis Barlow

British, c. 1626 - 1704

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