[Woman with the pointed black head-dress] [graphic] / WHollar delineauit, et fecit, 1648.

[Woman with the pointed black head-dress] [graphic] / WHollar delineauit, et fecit, 1648.

New Hollstein title: Head of a woman with a black lace kerchief head-dress and hair tied in black ribbons

[Antwerp] : [s.n.], [1648]

1 print : etching ; plate mark 130 x 101 mm

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"Bust, half left, eyes to front, in an oval, of a woman with fair hair hanging down on each side in ringlets and tied with black bows. She wears a dark cap on the back of her head, which tapers to a point on her forehead. A white shoulder wrap in three folds is held at her breast by a jewel inside a large black bow. Round her neck is a dark necklace from which hangs a cross." --Pennington.

Title and plate mark dimensions from Pennington.

Part of a series of women's heads in ovals.

Hollar was active in Antwerp in 1648.

According to Pennington, variously identified as the wife of Alexander Roelants, Mary Beaumont (mother of the first duke of Buckingham), and the Marchioness of Buckingham. A pencilled note on the Prague identifies it (unconvincingly) as "Catherine Howard Grandchild to Tho. Earle of Arundel."

Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 1730
New Hollstein German etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Hollar 1025

Belgium -- Antwerp.

ART 254- 242 (size XS)

Trimmed to plate mark

Purchase made possible by the Kathrine Dulin Folger and Family Acquisitions Endowment.

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