Lady with ruff and muff
Plate 18. An English lady with short straight hair standing whole length to front, with head turned to look to right; wearing a dark broad-rimmed hat, ruff and gown, both hands in a muff.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lady with ruff and muff
- Series/Portfolio: Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus: numbered set of twenty-six etchings (P.1778-1803A)
- Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Date: 1640
- Medium: Etching; second state of two
- Dimensions: Plate: 5 3/16 × 2 3/4 in. (13.2 × 7 cm)
Sheet: 5 3/8 × 3 1/16 in. (13.7 × 7.7 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
- Object Number: 20.81.3.60
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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