Spring [graphic] / W. Hollar inu. et fecit, Londini, 1643.
1643
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Details
Title
Spring [graphic] / W. Hollar inu. et fecit, Londini, 1643.
Variant title
Set title: Four seasons
Created/published
[London] : [s.n.], [1643]
Description
1 print : etching ; platemark 263 x 186 mm
Material base
paper
Summary
A young woman, half left, in an ample silk dress with a laced corsage, deep lace-fringed collar, and lace on the shoulders and the turned-up cuffs. Her dark curls fall to her shoulder, with a rose above her left ear. Her right hand holds a bunch of tulips, and her left the folds of her dress. A small fan hangs from her waist.--Adapted from Pennington.
Note
'1' inscribed in plate in lower right corner of image.
Four lines of verse inscribed in plate in two columns beneath image: Welcom sweet lady you doe bring rich presents of a hopefull Spring that makes the earth to looke so greene as when she first began to teeme.
One in a set of four symbolic prints depicting a woman dressed for each of the four seasons.
The house in the background is identified as most likely being Tart Hall, "a rather isolated villa on the edge of St. James's Park that belonged to the Lord and Lady Arundel" (see "'A rather fascinating hybrid' Tart Hall: Lady Arundel's 'Casino at Whitehall'", Dianne Duggan, British Art Journal vol. IV, no. 3).
According to Pennington this is state 2 of 2.
Four lines of verse inscribed in plate in two columns beneath image: Welcom sweet lady you doe bring rich presents of a hopefull Spring that makes the earth to looke so greene as when she first began to teeme.
One in a set of four symbolic prints depicting a woman dressed for each of the four seasons.
The house in the background is identified as most likely being Tart Hall, "a rather isolated villa on the edge of St. James's Park that belonged to the Lord and Lady Arundel" (see "'A rather fascinating hybrid' Tart Hall: Lady Arundel's 'Casino at Whitehall'", Dianne Duggan, British Art Journal vol. IV, no. 3).
According to Pennington this is state 2 of 2.
Cited/described in
Pennington, R. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar, 606
Genre/form
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
ART 252- 175.1 (size M)
Folger-specific note
"220" and "97" written in ink on recto just outside platemark - 220 just outside upper right corner and 97 outside lower left corner. "201" penned on verso.
Folger accession
252175