M13297: Portrait of a Woman with Long Hair, Her Hands Together in Prayer
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M13297
- People
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Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
- Title
- Portrait of a Woman with Long Hair, Her Hands Together in Prayer
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Young Woman Praying
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1646
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/255861
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 24.8 × 17.5 cm (9 3/4 × 6 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin: Quid Virgo Sparsis Prætendit compta capillis: / Et Christum quorens consequi sola putatr. // Soli Deo Seruire cupit sesque beatam / Reddere, nam Crucis gaudia sola beant, // Albertus Durer, pinxit, WH[linked]ollar fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, Ao. 1646.
- collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession number (Lugt 936)] 13,297
- inscription: verso, brown ink: No: 2647 - - 1/6
- inscription: verso, various graphite insciptions: 1/2 ly / Zh[illeg.]
- watermark: [illegible armorial]
- inscription: in plate, upper right corner: 1497 / AD [monogram]
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- ii/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 869, Pennington 1535
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Arnold H. Knapp
- Accession Year
- 1956
- Object Number
- M13297
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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