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Five heads, including two with beards, and a woman's head in left profile: AD.1.18-646

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Five heads, including two with beards, and a woman's head in left profile
A booke of drawings

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Stent, Peter
Draughtsman: Hollar, Wenceslaus (After)

Entities

Categories

Notes

History note: From an unidentified collection: a mark similar to Lugt 2923b, but on left corner verso rather than right corner recto

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Transferred (1876) by Cambridge University Library

Dating

17th Century#
Production date: AD 1650

Note

One of 18 plates after Hollar and Hendrick van der Borcht

School or Style

Bohemian

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: AD.1.18-646
Primary reference Number: 203084
New Hollstein (German): 2701
Pennington: 1758

Audit data

Created: Friday 3 July 2015 Updated: Saturday 28 January 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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