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Lord Denny [graphic] / H. Holbein pinxit, W. Hollar fecit aqua forti, ex Collectione Arundeliana 1647.

Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker.; Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, artist.
1647
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Title
Lord Denny [graphic] / H. Holbein pinxit, W. Hollar fecit aqua forti, ex Collectione Arundeliana 1647.
Created/published
[Antwerp] : [s.n.], [1647]
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 145 x 110 mm
Associated name
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker.
Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, artist.
Material base
paper
Summary
"Bust, half left in circle. He has a moustache and a long forked beard, and wears a flat hat with a brim. He has a dark gown with open collar over a black, white-lined doublet. A metal chain is doubled round his neck." --Pennington.
Note
Title from lettering in lower margin.

Lettering within image: anno 1541 aetatis suae 29.

Description based on print trimmed to plate mark.

Hollar was active in Antwerp in 1647.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000. Decade of Collecting (catalog entry 38)
Cited/described in
Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 1387
New Hollstein German etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Hollar 971
Genre/form
Portraits, Male.
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Belgium -- Antwerp.

Call number
ART 246- 185 (size XS)
Folger accession
246185

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