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Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
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Plate 22. An English lady standing whole length to left, with head in profile and hand folded; wearing a cap, shoulder wrap trimmed with lace, gloves, and scissors suspended from a cord from around her waist at left.
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Title: Lady with scissors
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; first state of two
Dimensions:
Plate: 5 1/4 × 2 13/16 in. (13.3 × 7.2 cm)
Sheet: 5 3/8 × 2 15/16 in. (13.7 × 7.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Object Number: 20.81.3.64
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