Venus
Printmaker:
Hollar, Wenceslaus
(Attributed)
Painter:
Elsheimer, Adam
(After)
History note: From the collection of George Hibbert (1757-1837) [Lugt 2849]
Height: 93 mm
Width: 147 mm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
17th Century#
Production date:
circa
AD 1646
Possibly a variant print by Hollar of an etching after the same painting (see 24.I.4-19). The lettering underneath the image is not by Hollar, as it is in the other etching. Elsheimer's painting is in the Fitzwilliam Museum's collection, no. 532
Accession number: 24.I.4-10
Primary reference Number: 129694
Hollstein (German): p.151
Lugt: 2849
Pennington: 271a
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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