WENCESLAUS HOLLAR (1607-1677)

Muff with a Brocade Band

Details

WENCESLAUS HOLLAR (1607-1677)
Muff with a Brocade Band
Etching, 1645, on laid paper, without watermark, second, final state, a good impression of this rare print, starting to show wear in places, with small margins, framed
Plate 3 x 2 ¾in. (7.5 x 7cm.); Sheet 3 1/8 x 3in. (8 x 7.8cm.)

Provenance

British Museum, London (Lugt 302), with their duplicate stamp (Lugt 305).
G. A. Cardew (1865-1942), London (Lugt 1134).
Unidentified, Initials HB in an Oval (not in Lugt).

Literature

Pennington 1950; New Hollstein 795

Exhibited

Every Object Tells a Story, 2015, Cataogue Number 105

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Lot Essay

Oliver Hoare writes of this: My first encounter with Hollar’s fur muffs took place in the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in the context of an exhibition in 2008 entitled: ‘Amazing Rare Things’. There they were, eight of them, laid out in a case. I found them astounding, surreal even, with a palpable soft erotic charge'.

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