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

Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker.; Perino, del Vaga, 1500 or 1501-1547, artist.; Borcht, Hendrick van der, 1614-1676 publisher.; Lanier, Jerome, -1657, dedicatee.
1642
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Title
[Holy family] [graphic] / Perino del Vago inu. ; Wenceslaus Hollar Bohem[us] fecit Londini 1642 ex collectione Arundeliana.
Variant title
Viro praestantiss.mo D[omi]no Hieronymo Lenniero, etc.
Created/published
[London] : H. Van der Borcht excudit, [1642]
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 212 x 162 mm
Associated name
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker.
Perino, del Vaga, 1500 or 1501-1547, artist.
Borcht, Hendrick van der, 1614-1676 publisher.
Lanier, Jerome, -1657, dedicatee.
Material base
paper
Summary
"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.
Note
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."
Cited/described in
Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 134
New Hollstein German etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Hollar 360
Genre/form
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
ART 264- 029 (size XS)
Folger-specific note
Trimmed within plate mark

Adopted by Laura Hull Cofield, Acquisitions Night 2008.
Folger accession
264029

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