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Venus Protecting Aeneas

Wenceslaus Hollar, Franz Cleyn, and others

Venus Protecting Aeneas

1648-1658

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Venus Protecting Aeneas

1648-1658

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (Trimmed within platemark): 256 × 191 mm. (10 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2296
Evidence of text transfer

Inscribed: Recto: in image, bottom center, in plate "Æ.10.l.450"; in image, bottom right, in plate "F. Cleyn inv: W. Hollar fecit," Verso: top center, in ink "742"; center, in ink "561"' upper center, in pencil "F 81" (?); lower left corner, in pencil "Fox / 4 / [indecipheable]"; lower left corner, Claghorn diamond/lozenge in pencil with "6273" inside

Markings: CM: Claghorn; WM: countermark with initials "IP"

Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar

1606–1676

Bohemian, 1607-1677
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Artist

Franz Cleyn

1581–1657

German, 1582-1658
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Publisher

John Ogilby

1599–1675

(English, 1600-1676)
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