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Title Page: Characaturas by Leonardo da Vinci, from Drawings by Wincelslaus Hollar, out of the Portland Museum

Wenceslaus Hollar|Leonardo da Vinci|John Clarke

1786

Title Page: Characaturas by Leonardo da Vinci, from Drawings by Wincelslaus Hollar, out of the Portland Museum by Wenceslaus Hollar|Leonardo da Vinci|John Clarke

Medium

Etching and engraving

Dimensions

Plate: 7 7/8 x 6 5/16 in. (20 x 16 cm) Sheet: 8 1/16 x 6 9/16 in. (20.4 x 16.7 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

Accession Number

53.600.3176

About the Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar|Leonardo da Vinci|John Clarke · 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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