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Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
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Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders slightly turned to left, with fringe and string of pearls in her curly hair, wearing stiff double-laced collar projecting at back and sides over dress decorated with drop pear hanging from bow with jewel.
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Title: Woman with dark hair and elaborate lace collar, turned slightly to left
Series/Portfolio: Women's Heads Framed in Roundels : Twenty-three plates (New Hollstein 694-716)
Artist:
Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
Date: 1645–47
Medium: Etching; only state
Dimensions: Plate: 4 1/16 × 3 3/4 in. (10.3 × 9.5 cm) cut on the platemark and with thread margins in places
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Object Number: 20.81.3.246
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