Eight Beggars
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 8.6 × 26 cm (3 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
R.L. Baumfeld Collection
Accession Number
1969.15.5
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar after Jacques Callot
**Wenceslaus Hollar (Václav Hollar, 1607–1677)** was a prolific Bohemian etcher, engraver, and draftsman whose career spanned the turbulent decades of the Thirty Years’ War and the English Civil War. Born in Prague on 13 July 1607, he initially trained for the law before his family’s fortunes collapsed during the 1620 Sack of Prague. Turning to art, he produced his earliest known plates—small copi...