Saint Lawrence

Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After Adam Elsheimer German
1650
Not on view
St Lawrence standing to left on a hill, looking to right, holding a palm leaf in his left hand and a gridiron with the right; after Adam Elsheimer

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Object Information
  • Title: Saint Lawrence
  • Etcher: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Artist: After Adam Elsheimer (German, Frankfurt 1578–1610 Rome)
  • Date: 1650
  • Medium: Etching; first state of four
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 4 3/16 × 3 9/16 in. (10.7 × 9 cm)
    Cut outside the borderlines. The image is intact but the title may have been cut.
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.1.18
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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