Two Butterflies, a Wasp, and a Moth, 1646

Not on View

series Title

Muscarum Scarabeorum, Vermiumque Varie Figure & Formae

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 8.1 × 12.1 cm (3 3/16 × 4 3/4 in.)

sheet: 8.3 × 12.2 cm (3 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 919, State i/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.4945

Artists / Makers

Wenceslaus Hollar (artist) Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, at lower left: WHollar fecit ex Collectione Arundeliana; verso, lower left, in graphite, by a later hand: 2170; verso, lower right, in graphite, by a later hand: 637

Provenance

Count Giuseppe Archinto [1783-1861], Milan (Lugt 52); Arkady Alferoff [1811-1872], Bonn (Lugt 1727); Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt [c.1840-1914], Berlin (Lugt 2926); (C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 637); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Alferoff, Arkady Nikolaevitch
Archinto, Giuseppe Count
Goldschmidt, Rudolf Philip
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1982: Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, no. 2170, state i/iii.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 919, state i/iii.