Helmeted head
Medium
Etching; copy by Francis Place
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 9/16 in. × 2 in. (6.5 × 5.1 cm) cut at top and right
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.18-68
Tags
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Francis Place · 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...