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Two Swans

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Two Swans

Wenceslaus Hollar | Francis Barlow

1654–58

Medium

Etching; second state of two

Tags

Dimensions

Sheet: 5 3/16 × 7 7/16 in. (13.2 × 18.9 cm) cut outside the image but within the platemark

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Wenceslaus Hollar

1607–1677 • Germany

Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) was a Bohemian etcher and printmaker who became one of the most prolific and technically accomplished graphic artists of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague on July 23, 1607, Hollar spent much of his working life in England, where he created an invaluable visual record of seventeenth-century life that continues to inform our understanding of the period.

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