Plate 6 of 8 from Diversae Insectorum Aligerorum

Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech, 1607 - 1677

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about 1646

Etching on laid paper

Overall: 4 3/4 × 7 3/16 in. (12 × 18.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund

PR.999.22.6

Geography

Place Made: Czechoslovakia, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Course History

ARTH 46, Northern Baroque Art, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012

ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2012

ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Winter 2015

Provenance

Swann Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, New York, Sale 1826, lot 64; sold to present collection, 1999.

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