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[Woman's head framed in roundel]

[Woman's head framed in roundel]

W Hollar fec. 1646
Etching, sheet 100 x 90mm (4 x 3½"). Tipped into album sheet.
One of a set of thirty-seven portrait busts of women etched by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77), prolific and highly-regarded printmaker born in Bohemia but working mostly in England. Richard Pennington, author of the standard work on Hollar, describes the series as 'rather fashion plates than portraits', while noting similarities with living persons in some cases. This print has been identified elsewhere as Mary, princess royal (1631-60), princess of Orange and daughter of Charles I.
Pennington 1912.i; for another impression identifying sitter as princess Mary see ref. 42234
[Ref: 42235]  £220.00


 

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