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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1877
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish (Brussels, Belgium 1568 - 1625 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Four Windmills
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1650
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/273996

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to tan
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 12 × 17.5 cm (4 3/4 × 6 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, left: Brüghel pinxit.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, right: W. Hollar fecit, 1650, Ex Collectione Arundeliana.
  • inscription: lower margin toward right, graphite: P. 1215.
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Parth. No. 1215. Die vier Windmühlen. / Geissler's sale No. 735 / 20 Ng
  • collector's mark: verso, black ink inscription: friederic Geissler [illeg.] a Paris 1813. [Johann Martin Friedrich Geissler (Lugt 1072)]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 1 fr[?] 12 [illeg.]
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1877

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 1104, Pennington 1215

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1877
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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