Minerva (Pallas), Wenceslaus Hollar, after Adam Elsheimer, 1646

Title(s)

Minerva (Pallas)
De drie wereldrijken (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-11.217

Catalogue reference

• Pennington 270
• New Hollstein German (Hollar) 843

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Minerva zit in een werkruimte met kunstenaars en wetenschappers.

Artist

• print maker: Wenceslaus Hollar (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Adam Elsheimer (mentioned on object)

Place

Antwerp

Dating

1646

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 92 mm × width 147 mm

What

• specific aspects, allegorical aspects of Minerva; Minerva as patroness

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Wenceslaus Hollar, Giulia Bartrum, Simon Turner, dl. III, p. 118, cat.nr. 843
• A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, p. 36, cat.nr. 270