Nun, 1651

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series Title

Dance of Death [Pennington 233-262]

Medium

etching with border "Democritus and Heraclitus" (Pennington 233A)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 1141, State i/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.4890

Artists / Makers

Wenceslaus Hollar (artist) Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Abraham van Diepenbeeck (artist after) Flemish, 1596 - 1675

Hans Holbein the Younger (artist after) German, 1497/1498 - 1543

Image Use

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Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 588); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1982: Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1141, state i/iv.