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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1854
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
Title
Spring
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Three-Quarter-Length Women as Allegories of the Seasons
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1641
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/274348

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 24.6 × 18 cm (9 11/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription:
  • inscription: in plate, two verses followed by the artist's signature: Ver / Iam decessit Hymens, pelles et vela valete, / Florida iam Veneris, tempora grat + virent. / Ridenti facie cum iam Natura superbit. / Dio, celare an nos ora venusta decel. // Spring / Ffurs fare you well, the Winter is quite gone, / and Beauty's quarter now is coming on, / When nature striueth most to shew her pride, / our beauty's being the cheefe we must not hide. // W: Hollar inuentor et fecit London Ao. 1641
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collectionaccession stamp (4836)] 1854

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iv/iv
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 332, Pennington 610

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1854
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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