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Antwerp: V.4-79

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Antwerp

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus (After)

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by VanSittart, Augustus Arthur

Note

Without lettering. In reverse after an etching by Hollar from a series of Ports, first published by Joannes Meyssens c.1651

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: V.4-79
Primary reference Number: 178139
New Hollstein (German): 1165 copy
Pennington: 823 copy

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Sunday 7 August 2011

Associated departments & institutions

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

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