Young woman with pigtails
Plate 10 from 'Reisbüchlein' (Little Travel Book). Portrait of a young woman with pigtails, half-length in profile to left, wearing a dark cap folded up at the back, and wide ruff, her two long pigtails hanging below the ruff, down her back..
Artwork Details
- Title: Young woman with pigtails
- Series/Portfolio: Reisbüchlein (Little Travel Book): Twenty-four etchings (New Hollstein 148-171)
- Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Publisher: Abraham Hogenberg (German, Cologne 1579/90–after 1656 Cologne)
- Date: 1636
- Medium: Etching; second state of two
- Dimensions: Plate: 2 5/8 × 2 1/16 in. (6.7 × 5.3 cm) cut on the platemark
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
- Object Number: 20.81.3.13
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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