Landscape Shaped Like a Face

Wenceslaus Hollar17th century

Details

Title: Landscape Shaped Like a Face
Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Date Created: 17th century
Subject Keywords: landscapes (representations)
Signatures / Inscriptions: Unsigned; inscribed in plate: “This Revers’d is ye head & face of an Old Man”
Print State: Second of three states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), before 1953
Materials & Techniques: Etching on laid paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Removed from Vertue’s “Description of the works of the Ingenious Delineator and Engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into Classes of Different Sorts, and with some account of his Life” (London, 1759), 2nd edition; Cutter WQ53/H73/YV.
Dimensions: 1677
Bibliography: Parthey 1241; Pennington 1241
Associated People: Created by Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677)
Accession Number: 1983.7.5

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