[Four caterpillars and a snail] [graphic] / WHollar fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, deliana, ao. 1646.
1646
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Title
[Four caterpillars and a snail] [graphic] / WHollar fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, deliana, ao. 1646.
Edition
[State 1 of 3].
Created/published
[Antwerp] : [s.n.], [1646]
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 80 x 118 mm
Associated name
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker.
Material base
paper
Summary
"A fat, light colored caterpillar at top; a hairy one rolled in a ball on right, and one extended in lower left corner; a brightly spotted one between; and a snail moving left above." --Pennington.
Note
Title, state, and plate mark measurement from Pennington.
Hollar was active in Antwerp in 1646.
From a group of 12 etchings entitled Muscarum scarabeorum.
Hollar was active in Antwerp in 1646.
From a group of 12 etchings entitled Muscarum scarabeorum.
Exhibited
ART 254- 235 no.1 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. Consuming Splendor.
Cited/described in
Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 2167
New Hollstein German etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Hollar 916
New Hollstein German etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, Hollar 916
Genre/form
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Belgium -- Antwerp.
Item Details
Call number
ART 254- 235 no.1 (size XS)
Folger-specific note
Trimmed within plate mark. With later hand coloring. Adopted by Twiss and Patrick Butler, Acquisitions Night 2002.
Folger accession
254235