2021.306: Peasant Brawl; verso: Design for a funeral monument(?)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2021.306
- People
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Johann Liss, German (Oldenburg, Germany c. 1595-1600 - 1631 Venice, Italy)
- Title
- Peasant Brawl; verso: Design for a funeral monument(?)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1646
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/370220
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 21.8 × 32.3 cm (8 9/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower left: P Brugel inu
- inscription: in plate, lower center: 1646 / W Hollar fecit
- inscription: on mat, graphite: Peasants fighting. / P. 599
- inscription: on mat, graphite: Etching after Pieter Brueghel. / Lacks verses at foot. / 27.vi S6 2of[?]
- watermark: crescent(?)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Arthur and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- i/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- Pennington 599; New Hollstein 861
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
- Accession Year
- 2021
- Object Number
- 2021.306
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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