Pigherder and Cowherd Conversing in a Clearing
Medium
Etching, state cannot be determined due to trimming of sheet
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 13/16 × 8 5/16 in. (14.7 × 21.1 cm) cut below the borderline
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.1379
Tags
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Pieter van Avont|Jacques d'Arthois · 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...