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Democritus and Heraclitus

Wenceslaus Hollar|John Overton|Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)|Richard Gaywood|Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet

1650–60

Democritus and Heraclitus by Wenceslaus Hollar|John Overton|Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)|Richard Gaywood|Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet

Medium

Etching; not by Hollar

Dimensions

Plate: 9 9/16 × 12 5/8 in. (24.3 × 32 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957

Accession Number

57.658.97

Tags

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About the Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar|John Overton|Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)|Richard Gaywood|Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet · 1607–1677

Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was a prolific Bohemian etcher who became one of the most accomplished printmakers of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague, he trained under Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt before entering the service of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1636. Hollar spent most of his career in England, where he produced approximately 2,740 etchings documenting an extraordinary range...

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