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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R1344
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
Title
Ralph Venning
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1674
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/243651

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to tan
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 15 × 9 cm (5 7/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower right of image area: W. Hollar fecit, 1674
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin area: The true Effigies, of Mr. Ralph Venning, / Minister of y Gospell, who dyed the 10th of / March 1673, in the yeare of his age, 53.
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Randall Collection accession stamp (Lugt 2130)] 1344
  • inscription: verso, brown ink : [a very long religious text cut at the right side and thus incomprehensible, evidently written, signed, and dated by Thomas Bolitho in 1683, with an additional notation in 1727]
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: no. 3- / no. 3- / P 1515

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 2310, Penninngton 1515

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R1344
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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