G1904: Unknown Woman
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G1904
- People
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Hans Holbein the Younger, German (Augsburg, Germany 1497/98 - 1543 London, England)
- Title
- Unknown Woman
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Catherine of Aragon (?)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1647
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/274207
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching printed in black ink on white wove paper, darkened to cream
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 12.7 × 10.7 cm (5 × 4 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate along lower edge: HH[linked]olbein pinxit, W: Hollar fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, Ao. 1647.
- inscription: lower edge, graphite: P 1549
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1904
- inscription: verso, graphite: P 1549
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- ii/iv
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 983, Pennington 1549
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G1904
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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