G1877: Four Windmills

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G1877

People

Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish (Brussels, Belgium 1568 - 1625 Antwerp, Belgium)

Title

Four Windmills

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1650

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/273996

Physical Descriptions

Medium

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

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

sheet: 12 × 17.5 cm (4 3/4 × 6 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1877
• inscription: verso, graphite: 1 fr[?] 12 [illeg.]
• collector's mark: verso, black ink inscription: friederic Geissler [illeg.] a Paris 1813. [Johann Martin Friedrich Geissler (Lugt 1072)]
• inscription: verso, graphite: Parth. No. 1215. Die vier Windmühlen. / Geissler's sale No. 735 / 20 Ng
• inscription: lower margin toward right, graphite: P. 1215.
• inscription: in plate, lower margin, right: W. Hollar fecit, 1650, Ex Collectione Arundeliana.
• inscription: in plate, lower margin, left: Brüghel pinxit.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

i/ii

Standard Reference Number

New Hollstein 1104, Pennington 1215

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Object Number

G1877

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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