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Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
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A merchant's wife from Hanover standing whole length slightly to right, looking towards the viewer, holding a rose in her right hand; wearing a lace-trimmed cap and stiff ruff, dark bodice, lace-trimmed apron over skirt with striped border, purse and knife suspended from a cord around her waist.
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Title: Wife of a Hannover Merchant (Mercantoris Hanauiensis Uxor)
Series/Portfolio: Aula Veneris: Title and fifty plates (New Hollstein 571-621)
Artist:
Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
Date: 1644–50
Medium: Etching; only state
Dimensions: Plate: 3 7/16 × 2 3/16 in. (8.7 × 5.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Object Number: 20.81.3.125
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