Warships and a Spouting Whale

Wenceslaus Hollar1665

Details

Title: Warships and a Spouting Whale
Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Date Created: 1665
Subject Keywords: animals, boats, marine views, ships, whales
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate below margin, center right: “W. Hollar inu: et sculp: 1665. Peter Stent exc:”
Print State: Only state
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. Watermark: ProPatria (Churchill 127-153)
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 1275; Pennington 1275
Associated People: Created by Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677)
Accession Number: 1983.7.6

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