Spring
Young woman standing half-length facing right, holding basket of roses with both hands, wearing white feather in her curly hair, a laced bodice with large white collar, a formal garden seen through open window in the background.
Artwork Details
- Title: Spring
- Series/Portfolio: Half-length Women as Allegories of the Four Seasons (New Hollstein 545-548)
- Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Publisher: Peter Stent (British, active ca. 1615/17–1665)
- Date: 1644
- Medium: Etching; second state of three
- Dimensions: Sheet: 6 15/16 × 4 13/16 in. (17.7 × 12.3 cm)
cut c. 1 x 4 mm within the platemark - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
- Object Number: 20.81.3.359
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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