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Merlin: 31.I.1-130

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Merlin

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hollar, Wenceslaus

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bought from the Print Duplicates Fund

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

17th Century#
Production date: AD 1641

Note

Frontispiece to Thomas Heywood's The Life of Merlin... London, 1641.

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: 31.I.1-130
Primary reference Number: 307898
Pennington: 1987
New Hollstein (German): 357
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Sunday 20 February 2022 Updated: Sunday 20 February 2022 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

Citation for print

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