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The Mineral Well
Wenceslaus Hollar17th century
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Mineral Well
- Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
- Date Created: 17th century
- Subject Keywords: landscapes (representations)
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate below border of image, lower right: “W. Hollar fecit”; inscribed, lower right: “VI 48” [Vertue number]
- Print State: Undescribed state as Pennington first of four states, but without the numeral on
- 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), 1940
- 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)
- Dimensions: 1677
- Bibliography: Parthey 1238; Parthey quotes Vertue III, 170 and VI, 48 (which identifies this as a view of Savonal) and notes, "Unter dem Abdrucke des Herrn Andreas Finger von Frankfurt-A.M. is von alten Hand mit Tinto bemarkt: Wolfbrunn zu Heidelberg am Necker."
- Associated People: Created by Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677)
- Accession Number: 1940.D1.133
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