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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1901
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Portrait of a Young Woman with Her Hair Pinned Up
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Half-Length Portrait of a Female with Braided Hair
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1646
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/274204

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 25.2 × 18 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Foolscap
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1901
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Parth. 1536
  • inscription: in plate, upper left corner, as if on a scrap of paper: Also bin ich gestalt / in achtcelje[?] Jor altt / 1497
  • inscription: in plate, on the bodice of the sitter: KTATDTDTSTWT / K A S
  • inscription: in plate, on the book held by the statue: AD [monogram]
  • inscription: in pkate, lower margin: ILLUVSTRİSSİMÆ ET EXCELLENTİSSİMÆ DNÆ: DOMNÆ ALATHEÆ TAL= / =bot, Arundeliæ, & Surriæ, Comitissæ, etc: hanc tabellam olim ab Alberto Durero ad uiuum depic= / =tam, iamq in Collectione Arundeliana conseruatam, & a Wenceslao Hollar Bohemo Aqua forti æri / inscultam, humillime offert et dedicat, Adam Alexius Bierling Antuerpiæ Anno, 1646.

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 870, Pennington 1536

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1901
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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