G1929: Head of a Young Black Boy in Profile to Right in an Oval

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G1929

People

Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)

Title

Head of a Young Black Boy in Profile to Right in an Oval

Other Titles

Former Title: Head of a Black Boy

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1635

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/273119

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 8.1 × 6.3 cm (3 3/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
sheet: 8.7 × 6.8 cm (3 7/16 × 2 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: in plate, lower right spandrel: W. Hollar inu:/ 1635
• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1929
• inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: x / [erased and illegible] P. 2005//g.gs. [erased and illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

New Hollstein 147, Pennington 2005

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

Object Number

G1929

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints, W. E .B. Du Bois Institute, Rudenstine Gallery, Cambridge, 09/02/2010 - 12/03/2010

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