Putti met tropische vogels: het element Lucht, Wenceslaus Hollar, after Pieter van Avont, 1647

Title(s)

Putti met tropische vogels: het element Lucht
De vier elementen (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-11.240

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein German (Hollar) 940-2(3)
• Pennington 522-2(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Wenceslaus Hollar (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Pieter van Avont (mentioned on object)

Place

Antwerp

Dating

1647

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 142 mm × width 210 mm

What

• air (one of the four elements)
• cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
• birds

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Wenceslaus Hollar, Giulia Bartrum, Simon Turner, dl. III, p. 224, cat.nr. 940
• A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, p. 80, cat.nr. 522