- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- R1356
- People
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Peeter van Avont, Flemish (1600-1652)
- Title
- Pædopægnion
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Title Page
Series/Book Title: Paedopaegnion - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1646
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/243701
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 13.5 × 21 cm (5 5/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
sheet: 15.3 × 22.3 cm (6 × 8 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: graphite, bottom margin of sheet, in handwriting of John Witt Randall?: Peter van Avont inv. W Hollar fec. 492. N. 2141.4bl.
- inscription: in plate, lower left: Pet. van Auont excud Cum priuilegio
- inscription: in plate, lower right: W. Hollar fecit
- inscription: in plate, center: PAEDOPAEGNION siue PVERORVM LVDENTIVM SCHEMATA VARIA Pictorum usiui aptata. Nobilissimo Domino D. GEORGIO AB ETTENHARD, Sacri Imperij Equiti, Maiestatis Catholicae Thesaurario Generali Sanctae Cruciatae in Regnis Hispaniarum: Singulari omnium Bonarum Artium Patrono. Pet van Auont Antuerp. Inuentor L.M.D.D.
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Randall Callection accession stamp (Lugt 2130)] 1356
- inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: D : No. 5 [probably in Randall's hand] / uf/fr[?] dr [probably in Randall's hand] / No. 852
- Provenance
- 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
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- State
- ii/iii
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 849, Pennington 492
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
- Object Number
- R1356
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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