Shell (Murex brandaris), c. 1645

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 9.5 × 13.6 cm (3 3/4 × 5 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edward William Carter and Hannah Locke Carter, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 1291, State only

Accession Number

1992.17.2

Artists / Makers

Wenceslaus Hollar (artist) Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: none; verso: at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: P2206

Marks and Labels

Hugh Melville Howard [Lugt 1280b]

Provenance

Hugh Melville Howard [1883-1919], Delgamy (Lugt 1280b); (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 25-26 February 1936, no. 292); Dr. Francis Springell [1898-1974], Portinscale, Keswick, England; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1989, lot 109); (Susan Schulman and Carolyn Bullard, New York); purchased by NGA with funds from Edward William Carter and Hannah Locke Carter, 1992.

Associated Names

Bullard, Carolyn
Howard, Hugh Melville
Schulman, Susan

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 20.

1998: A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998.

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. 1291, state only.