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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1849
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Francis Cleyn, German (1582-1658)
Title
Five Captains
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Five Chiefs Before Troy
Series/Book Title: Homer's Iliad (Homer His Iliads Translated, Adorn'd With Sculpture, And Illustrated With Annotations By John Ogilby)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
17th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/274337

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 30 × 20 cm (11 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
sheet: 34.1 × 24.4 cm (13 7/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin to left and right of an armorial: Iohanni Doddington / Somersett Armigero. // de Barrow / Lib: 2 Ver: 820 / in Comit: / Tabulam hanc. L.M.D.D.D. / I.O.
  • watermark: [illeg.]
  • inscription: lower right corner of sheet, graphite: W. Hollar / P. 287
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numberig within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1849

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 1749, Pennington 287

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1849
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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