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Lady with fur muff on right hand

1639
Not on view
Plate 6. An English lady with curly hair standing whole length to right, looking towards the viewer; wearing a ribbon in her hair, pearl earrings and necklace, ribbon tied above her waist around low-cut bodice, with scalloped lace-trimmed collar, fastened with brooch; her right hand in a muff, fur wound around her left hand; first state, before plate re-worked.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Lady with fur muff on right hand
  • Series/Portfolio: Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus: numbered set of twenty-six etchings (P.1778-1803A)
  • Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Date: 1639
  • Medium: Etching; first state of two
  • Dimensions: Plate: 5 5/16 × 2 7/8 in. (13.5 × 7.3 cm)
    Sheet: 5 7/16 × 3 1/16 in. (13.8 × 7.7 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.3.48
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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