[Holy family] [graphic] / Perino del Vago inu. ; Wenceslaus Hollar Bohem[us] fecit Londini 1642 ex collectione Arundeliana.

Viro praestantiss.mo D[omi]no Hieronymo Lenniero, etc.

[London] : H. Van der Borcht excudit, [1642]

1 print : etching ; plate mark 212 x 162 mm

paper

"Mary sits on left holding the infant Jesus in her right arm. On right the young John the Baptist, holding a crucifix in his right hand, reaches out his left to touch an object Jesus is holding. Joseph in right background." -- Pennington.

Title and plate mark dimensions from New Hollstein.

Lettering beneath image: "Viro praestantiss:mo D[omi]no Hieronymo Lenniero, etc. omnium bonarum artium et elegantiarum fautori et admiratori summo, ut[que] earum amantissimo, ita sibi devinctissimo, gratitudinis ergo D.D.D. Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemus, etc. H. Van der Borcht excudit."

Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 134
New Hollstein German etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Hollar 360

Great Britain -- England -- London.

ART 264- 029 (size XS)

Trimmed within plate mark

Adopted by Laura Hull Cofield, Acquisitions Night 2008.

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