Woman full face with black hood
Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders facing front, wearing dark hood tied under her chin covering her blond hair; only state and falling over her breast, with three flounces half-seen over each shoulder.
Artwork Details
- Title: Woman full face with black hood
- Series/Portfolio: Women's Heads Framed in Roundels : Twenty-three plates (New Hollstein 694-716)
- Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Date: 1642–47
- Medium: Etching; only state
- Dimensions: Sheet: 3 7/8 × 3 11/16 in. (9.9 × 9.4 cm) cut just within the platemark top and bottom, with thread margins at sides.
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
- Object Number: 20.81.3.250
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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