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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1855
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
Title
Summer
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Seasons
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1641
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/273876

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in back ink on white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 24.5 × 17.6 cm (9 5/8 × 6 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, two stanzas in the lower margin area: AESTAS / Lenes æstivi ZEPHYRI dum carpimus auras, / Velamen nigrum lumina nostra tegit, Candida ne facies turpi sudore madescat, / Immodicos æstus flabra levare solent, // SVMMER / In summer when we walke to take the ayre, / Wee thus are vay'l to keepe our faces faire / And lest our beautie shoold be soyl'd with sweats / wee with our ayrie fànnes depell the heate.
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1855

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 333, Pennington 611

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1855
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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