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The Three Windmills
Jan Brueghel the Younger, Wenceslaus Hollar1651
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Three Windmills
- Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar after Jan Brueghel the Younger
- Date Created: 1651
- Subject Keywords: landscapes (representations), windmills
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower center: “W. Hollar fecit, 1651”; inscribed in plate, lower right: “Meyssens excudit”
- Print State: Undescribed state (cf. Pennington first of two) with date 1651 and substitution
- 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 1216; Parthey gives "C Galle excudi" as later state; Vertue 30 gives "1641. I: Meyssens excud."
- Associated People: Created by Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677), After Jan Brueghel the Younger (Dutch (Flemish), 1601-1678)
- Accession Number: 1940.D1.136
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