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Lady wearing a wide hat and ruff, with both hands in a muff: P.11626-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Lady wearing a wide hat and ruff, with both hands in a muff
Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus
Publisher: Overton, John

Entities

Categories

Description

No.18 from a numbered set of 26 full-length figures of gentlewomen, with a title page. This set comprises 16 plates (including the title page) printed on eight sheets. See P.11616-R for further details.

Notes

History note: Possibly given by Sir Herbert Thompson in 1920. The set was contained within an envelope of prints given by Thompson, but all of the others are annotated with this information, so it is possible that the Hollar prints do not come from the same source.

Acquisition and important dates

by Unknown

Dating

17th Century#
Production date: AD 1640

Note

With some reworking. Printed on same sheet as P.11627-R and P.11628-R.

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.11626-R
Primary reference Number: 169878
Pennington: 1795
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Saturday 28 January 2023 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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