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(Muscarum scarabeorum...varie figure)
1646
for Muscarum scarabeorum...varie figure (Various types of flying insects and beetles)
- Medium
- etching
- Measurements
- 7.9 × 11.5 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Parthey 2164; Pennington 2164 i
- Edition
- 1st state
- Inscription
- printed in ink (in image) c.: Muscarum Scarabe: / orum, Verminum qB Varie Figure & Formæ, omnes primo and vivum colo / ribus depictæ & ex Collectione Arun / delian a Wenceslao Hollar aqua forti aeri / insculptae, Antverpiæ. Anno, 1646,
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: WHollar fect. 1646
inscribed in pencil l.c.: /u/
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.r.: l (underlined)
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.-l.r.: 23 n No 6 H - Accession Number
- 1278.412-3
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Rembrandt Cabinet
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Wenceslaus Hollar was born in Prague and grew up in the artistic milieu at the court of Rudolf II. In 1636 he joined the entourage of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, the renowned English art collector and patron. Hollar became one of the most significant early printmakers in England, where he produced etchings of his own design as well as those reproducing the works of others. This series of etchings copies a set of coloured drawings of insects in Arundel’s collection and reflects the interest among collectors at this time in representations of natural history specimens. The layout of the moths, butterflies and insects on the page follows a tradition established by the Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel.
