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Muffs

  • Object type

  • Museum number

    1868,0822.541

  • Title (series)

    • Muffs

  • Description

    A dark fur muff, lying diagonally on white surface, with wide bande of brocade round the centre. 1647
    Etching

  • Producer name

  • School/style

  • Date

    • 1647

  • Materials

  • Technique

  • Dimensions

    • Height: 82 millimetres
    • Width: 112 millimetres

  • Inscriptions

      • Inscription Content

        Lettered top left "WHollar fecit. 1647".

  • Curator's comments

    From a series of six plates of muffs by Hollar, dating from between 1645 and 1647 (New Hollstein 794-799).

    A related brush drawing in black wash on a grey prepared ground, heightened with white in the BM (SL,5214.7; ECM 47; Sprinzels 21). See also R. Godfrey, 'Wenceslaus Hollar: A Bohemian Artist in England', New Haven and London, 1994, no. 92B.

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  • Bibliography

    • Pennington 1982 1946 bibliographic details
    • New Hollstein (German) 798 (Hollar) bibliographic details

  • Location

    Not on display (British XVIIc Mounted Roy)

  • Subjects

  • Acquisition name

  • Department

    Prints & Drawings

  • Registration number

    1868,0822.541

  • Additional IDs

    • 2005,u.34
Dark fur muff lying diagonally on white surface, with wide bande of brocade round the centre. 1647 Etching

Dark fur muff lying diagonally on white surface, with wide bande of brocade round the centre. 1647 Etching

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