Woman with low decolletage and hat with a frilled rim

Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After John Hoskins British
1645
Not on view
A woman shown bust-length to left, looking to front; wearing a hat with scalloped lace edge, long necklace, low-cut patterned bodice over shirt with loose collar and sleeves.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Woman with low decolletage and hat with a frilled rim
  • Series/Portfolio: Women's Heads Framed in Roundels : Twenty-three plates (New Hollstein 694-716)
  • Etcher: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Artist: After John Hoskins (British, active by ca. 1615–died 1665)
  • Date: 1645
  • Medium: Etching; only state
  • Dimensions: Plate: 4 × 3 3/4 in. (10.2 × 9.5 cm)
    Sheet: 4 3/16 × 3 15/16 in. (10.7 × 10 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.3.257
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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