R1344: Ralph Venning

Identification and Creation

Object Number

R1344

People

Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)

Title

Ralph Venning

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1674

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/243651

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to tan

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 15 × 9 cm (5 7/8 × 3 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: in plate, lower right of image area: W. Hollar fecit, 1674
• inscription: in plate, lower margin area: The true Effigies, of Mr. Ralph Venning, / Minister of y Gospell, who dyed the 10th of / March 1673, in the yeare of his age, 53.
• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Randall Collection accession stamp (Lugt 2130)] 1344
• inscription: verso, brown ink : [a very long religious text cut at the right side and thus incomprehensible, evidently written, signed, and dated by Thomas Bolitho in 1683, with an additional notation in 1727]
• inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: no. 3- / no. 3- / P 1515

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

New Hollstein 2310, Penninngton 1515

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall

Object Number

R1344

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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