Medium
etching with border "Time and Eternity" (Pennington 233C)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.4888
Art Historical Context
Step into the intricate world of 17th-century printmaking with *Abbess*, a captivating etching created by Wenceslaus Hollar in1651. Hollar, a masterful Bohemian engraver who spent much of his career in, produced this work "after" designs by two renowned artists: Hans Holbein the Younger the celebrated German portraitist of the Tudor court known for his precise, psychologically penetrating portraits, and Abraham vanpenbeeck, a Baroque painter. This layered reproduction captures the dignified image of an abbess, symbolizing piety and authority within religious life. The etching's significance l...