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Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After Francis Delaram British
Not on view
An emblem of the English Civil War with a double-headed snake crawling before the Egyptian pyramids with the head of the Sphinx at the left.
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Title: Satire on the Civil War with a double-headed snake and Egyptian pyramids
Etcher:
Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
Artist:
After Francis Delaram (British, 1589/90–1627 London)
Date: 1643
Medium: Etching; only state
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 5/8 × 3 7/8 in. (6.6 × 9.9 cm)
cut outside the borderlines but within the platemark
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number: 20.81.1.34
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