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Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 - London 1677)
Category
Books
Date
1643
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237209
Summary
Bibliographic description
25 leaves, [24] leaves of [48] plates :. ill. ;. 12mo. Accession no. 3672. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Claire-Hippolyte-Josèphe Leris, called Mademoiselle Clairon (1723-1803); originally in proofs of 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.33, but later deleted on the grounds that this was a "Livre anglais". Binding: French early eighteenth-century brown calf, gilt spine, red lettering-piece, bearing the work "Recv/eil"; red edges. Upper cover has stamped in gold "Mlle. Clairon".
Makers and roles
Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 - London 1677)