Print of Designs for a Pommel, Quillons, and Locket
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
6 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. (15.5 x 11.4 cm)
Classification
Works on Paper-Prints
Culture
British
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lois Earl Blumka, 1992
Accession Number
1992.305.2
Tags
Ornament
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Hans Holbein the Younger · 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...