| Title: |
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| Series Title: |
plate 2 from Three-quarter-length-seasons series |
| Collection Title: |
Baillieu Library - Poynton Collection |
| Accession Number: |
1959.2406.000.000 |
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| Creator: |
Hollar, Wenceslaus |
| Place of birth: |
Bohemia |
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| Creation Date: |
1641 |
| Object Category: |
prints |
| Medium: |
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| Material: |
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| Description: |
engraving, printed in black ink, |
| Technique: |
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| State: |
second state |
| Dimensions: |
| Type |
Height |
Width |
Depth |
Diameter |
Unit (Lengths) |
Weight |
Unit (Weight) |
| image (sheet trimmed to image) |
24.6 |
17.9 |
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cm |
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| Inscription: |
signed and dated on plate, l.c.r. "W. Hollar inu: 1641." |
| Other Inscriptions: |
inscribed on former mount, bot. c., typed: "Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607-1677 [1607-1677 underlined] (German) - Summer. 1641. (From, The seasons series. P.610-13. Etching)"; bot. c., pencil: "P611 [below P.610-613]." inscribed l.l. corner, printed: "AESTAS/ Leres, astivi ZEPHYRI dum carpimus auras./ Velamen nigrum lumina nosta tegit./ Candida re facies tupi sudone madescat./ Immodicos astus flabra levare solent."; inscribed l.r. corner, printed: "SUMMER/ In Summer when wee walke to take the ayre./ Wee thus are vayl'd to keepe our faces faire/ And left our beautie should be soyl'd with sweate/ wee with our ayire fannes depell the heate." |
| Catalogue Raisonne: |
Urzidil 60; Pennington 611 |
| Credit Line: |
Baillieu Library Print Collection, the University of Melbourne. Gift of Dr J. Orde Poynton 1959. |
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