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Ornamental sword hilt

Etching
1642 (Etched)
Artist/Maker
Holbein (Designer)
Wenceslaus Hollar (Printmaker)
Place of origin
London (Etched)

Etching.

Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Etching
TitleOrnamental sword hilt (popular title)
Materials and techniques
etching
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Hans Holbein (after), 1 of 2 plates from a suite of 4(?) designs for daggers and scabbards, etched by Hollar after an original drawing by Holbein in the collection of the Earl of Arundel. London, 1642.
Physical description
Etching.
Dimensions
  • To plate mark height: 19.3cm
  • To plate mark width: 13.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
Lettered in the lower left of the plate: 'Holbein delinevit olim pro Edoardo Principe / .... / Originale quod habet Comes Arundelia Ao. 1642'
Object history
Two of the plates from this suite were etched in London, in 1644, and the other two in Antwerp, in 1645. The original Holbein drawings on which Hollar based his etchings, from the Arundel Collection, are now lost.
Bibliographic references
  • Parthey, G., Wenzel Hollar. Bescreibendes Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche, Berlin, 1853.
  • Pennington, R., A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607-1677, Cambridgeshire and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2599.
  • de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1988, 332.1-4.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
12832

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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