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Object Type: print
Museum number: Q,5.51
Description: Head of a child with curly hair, directed to front, looking to left, smiling; after Sadeler. 1646 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Wenceslaus Hollar; After: Aegidius Sadeler II
School/style: British; Bohemian; Flemish
Production date: 1646
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 171 millimetres; Width: 135 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (879) (Hollar); Pennington 1982 / A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar (1640)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane (with Philipe's oval stamp and the initials HS)
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Q,5.51

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