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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1848
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Francis Cleyn, German (1582-1658)
Title
Briseis and Achilles
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Briseis Led from Achilles' Tent
Series/Book Title: Homer's Iliad (Homer His Iliads Translated, Adorn'd With Sculpture, And Illustrated With Annotations By John Ogilby)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1656
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/274336

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 29.7 × 19.5 cm (11 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
sheet: 33.5 × 24 cm (13 3/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: F. Cleyn inu. W. Hollar fec. 1656
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin to left and right of an armorial: Honoratiss: Do: Dominæ / Filiæ Honoratisimi // Arabellæ Wentworth / Tho: Wentworth Comitis / hanc. D.D.D.L.M.I.O. / Lib: i Ver. 320.
  • watermark: [illeg.]
  • inscription: lower right corner of sheet, graphite: P. 286
  • inscription: verso, graphite: no.1 of 4 pieces for Ogilby's Homer
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1848

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 1748, Pennington 286

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1848
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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