Summer [graphic] / W. Hollar inu. et fecit, Londini 1644.
1644
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library ART 252- 175.2
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Title
Summer [graphic] / W. Hollar inu. et fecit, Londini 1644.
Variant title
Set title: Four seasons
Created/published
[London] : [s.n.], [1644]
Description
1 print : etching ; platemark 262 x 182 mm
Material base
paper
Summary
She stands in left profile, her head and face covered by a diaphanous black veil through which her distinguished profile can be seen. She wears a lace collar, very decolleté, around her shoulders, over a low-cut bodice, with a light skirt and a kind of over-skirt which is gathered up and held bunched in her right (hidden) hand. She holds a closed fan in her outstretched left hand. In background a park and lake, a palace in the Renaissance style with a medieval tower on right, and in distance a cathedral resembling old St. Paul's. The legend is not by Hollar. The background is evidently meant to be a view across St. James' Park to the new Banqueting House, the 'Holbein' gateway, and St. Paul's on the skyline.--From Pennington.
Note
'2' inscribed in plate in lower right corner of image.
Four lines of verse inscribed in plate in two columns beneath image: How Phoebus crowns our Sum[m]er dayes, with stronger heat and brighter rayes, her louely neck and brest are bare, whilst her fann doth cool the ayre.
One in a set of four symbolic prints depicting a woman dressed for each of the four seasons.
Four lines of verse inscribed in plate in two columns beneath image: How Phoebus crowns our Sum[m]er dayes, with stronger heat and brighter rayes, her louely neck and brest are bare, whilst her fann doth cool the ayre.
One in a set of four symbolic prints depicting a woman dressed for each of the four seasons.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005. Consuming Splendor.
Cited/described in
Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 607
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library ART 252- 175.2
Genre/form
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
ART 252- 175.2 (size M)
Folger-specific note
"221" and "98" written in ink on front just outside platemark - 221 just outside upper right corner and 98 outside lower left corner. "202" penned on back.
Folger accession
252175