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Object Type
print
Museum number
Mm,1.130
Title
Series:
Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus
Description
Plate 20. An English lady with short wavy hair standing whole length in profile to left; wearing a dark broad-rimmed hat, shoulder wrap with two rows of scalloped lace edge, apron and ornate underskirt, her gown partly raised and tucked under her folded hands; ?first state, before diagonal strokes on ruff on figure's left side. 1640 Etching and engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Wenceslaus Hollar
School/style
British
Bohemian
Production date
1640
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
133 millimetres
Width:
72 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
A vertical line over the edge of the skirt and over the floor at right, seen in the first state Q,5.142, is missing from this print. See Comment of Mm,1.98 for information about the series.
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700
(313.I)
(Hollar; ?)
Pennington 1982 / A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar
(1797.I)
(?)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
british costume 17thc
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Dorothea, Lady Banks
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Sarah Sophia Banks
(Lugt 216)
Acquisition date
1818
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
Mm,1.130
Conservation
Treatment
: 24 Mar 2014