[Woman with bodkin in her hair] [graphic] / WH 1636.

[Woman with bodkin in her hair] [graphic] / WH 1636.

[State 2 of 2].

[Cologne] : [Abraham Hogenberg], [1636]

1 print : etching ; platemark 67 x 55 mm

paper

"Bust of a young woman, half left, but with eyes to front. Protruding from her hair over her right temple is a bodkin with a short thread hanging down from its eye. She wears a stiff white cap edged with lace on the back of her head, and a wide, lace-edged white collar over a brocaded gown." --Pennington.

Title and state from Pennington.

According to New Hollstein, from a group of etchings entitled Reisbüchlein; first published by Abraham Hogenberg in Cologne in 1636.

Numbered "5" in plate, upper right corner.

Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 1652
New Hollstein German etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Hollar 152

Germany -- Cologne.

ART 248- 116 (size XS)

Mounted on paper with much later manuscript title 'Lady's bust with lace cap and flat gorget'

Adopted by Gail Kern Paster, Acquisitions Night 1999.

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