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Venus: 24.I.4-10

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Venus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus (Attributed)
Painter: Elsheimer, Adam (After)

Entities

Categories

Notes

History note: From the collection of George Hibbert (1757-1837) [Lugt 2849]

Measurements and weight

Height: 93 mm
Width: 147 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

17th Century#
Production date: circa AD 1646

Note

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

Techniques used in production

Etching

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: 24.I.4-10
Primary reference Number: 129694
Hollstein (German): p.151
Lugt: 2849
Pennington: 271a

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 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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