Old Man, from the Dance of Death series
Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech, 1607 - 1677
after Hans Holbein, the younger, German, 1497 - 1543
1651
Etching on paper
Plate: 2 15/16 × 2 3/16 in. (7.5 × 5.6 cm)
Sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 9/16 in. (8.2 × 6.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl, and John S. Stahl in memory of their parents Barbara J. and David G. Stahl, Class of 1947
2014.73.87
Geography
Place Made: Czechoslovakia, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, in plate: WH.; inscribed, lower left, in plate: H.B.t.; inscribed, bottom margin, in plate: Spiritus meus attenuabitur, dies mei breviabun / tur, & solum mibi supereft sepulchrum. Job 17; inscribed, lower left corner, in plate: 28
Provenance
Collected by Barbara Jaffe Stahl (1930-2004) and David Gerald Stahl (1926-2013), Manchester, New Hampshire; bequeathed to their children Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl and John S. Stahl, 2013; given to present collection, 2014.
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