Portret van een zwarte jongen, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Title(s)

Portret van een zwarte jongen

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-11.589

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein German (Hollar) 814
• Pennington 2004

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Wenceslaus Hollar (mentioned on object)

Place

Antwerp

Dating

1645

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 80 mm × width 59 mm

What

• Africans
• boy (child between toddler and youth)

Acquisition

unknown 2012

Copyright

Public domain

• Wenceslaus Hollar, Giulia Bartrum, Simon Turner, dl. III, p. 95, cat.nr. 814
• A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, p. 317, cat.nr. 2004