Title:
Venus
Maker(s):
Hollar, Wenceslaus; printmaker; attributed; Czech artist, 1607-1677
Elsheimer, Adam; painter; after; German artist, 1578-1610
Category:
Name:
print
Date:
circa 1646
Period:
17th Century
Production
Note:
Possibly a variant print by Hollar of an etching after the same painting (see 24.I.4-19). The lettering underneath the image is not by Hollar, as it is in the other etching. Elsheimer's painting is in the Fitzwilliam Museum's collection, no. 532
Technique:
etching
Dimension(s):
height, 93, mm
width, 147, mm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1816; Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
Provenance:
From the collection of George Hibbert (1757-1837) [Lugt 2849]
Alternative
Number(s):
Hollstein (German); p.151
Lugt; 2849
Pennington; 271a
Related Object(s):
24.I.4-19; Venus
532; Venus and Cupid
Accession:
Object Number: 24.I.4-10
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 129694; input: 2006-04-24; modified: 2013-05-10)
Permanent
Identifier: