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1663
for Animalium, Ferarum, & Bestiarum, Florum, Fructuum (Various images of birds & beats, flowers & fruits, butterflies & worns all drawn from life)

Medium
etching
Measurements
17.4 × 27.4 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Parthey 2064; Pennington 2064 ii
Edition
2nd state
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.c.: ANIMALIUM, FERARUM, & BESTIARUM, FLORVM, FRUCTVVM, / Muſcarum, Vermiumq: Icones variæ, omnes' ad vivum delineatæ, per / Wenceſlaum Hollar, in lucem editæ a Petro Stent, Londini, A° 1663 / A New and perfect Book of Beaƒts, Flowers Fruits, butterflies, other Vermine, Exactly drawne after ye (e in superscript) life naturall, by W: Hollar, / Printed and are to be sould, by Peter Stent, at the White Horƒe in Filtƒpurr / street without New-gate, London, A° 1663
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: W. Hollar sculp: 1663
inscribed in pen and ink below image l.l.: No 36
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.: ) Qu A° 1663 (...illeg.) (Qu underlined) / P. 2064 (P underlined)
stamped in ink on reverse l.l.: R (not in Lugt)
stamped in purple ink on reverse c.l.: NATIONAL GALLERY / OF VICTORIA (in oval) (Lugt 1932g)
Accession Number
1278.423-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display