Wenceslaus Hollar Winter 1641 text below Latin and English

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Condition: good to front some ageing with loss of top corner tips, and loss to lower right hand side. antique print dated in print 1641 We are not sure of date of printing as has been trimmed too much a long time ago, but do not think it was printed in 1641. The rear shows dirt and top, 5/6 in pencil bottom right and had once been mounted top and most probably been framed. To front some ageing. Signed within print to side of the table top W. Hollar Inui 1641 Three-quarter-length women as allegories of the four seasons This is Winter of his series The Four Seasons. Below the figure is verses, in Latin on the left and English on right, about dressing for the weather . printed left is. HYEMS / Cum deformis Hyems gelidas con?trinxerit undas / Pectore, ne Sanguis torpeat hi?ce tegor / Pellibus Armenÿs, et velis, vincimus auras, / (non gladio) et claro MVLCIBER Igne tuo, printed right WINTER, / Thus again?t winter wee our ?elues doe arme / and thinke you then the cold can doe us harme / but though it be to hard for this attire / yet wee'll orecome it not with ?word but fire. Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) published a large number of costume prints in the middle of the seventeenth century including Englishwomen in winter clothing. This print shows a lady wearing a fur collar and muff, a chaperone hood with a second hood/coif underneath, and a half mask? . Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) artist and engraver. Born Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (Poland) 1607, in 1636 he met art collector Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel . In 1637 he went with Arundel to England, where he remained in the earl's household for many years. Hollar married Tracy a lady-in-waiting to the Countess of Norfolk. Hollar later joined the service of the Duke of York (later King James II) taking with him his young family. Size approx 25.5 x 18cm. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003592

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Titel: Wenceslaus Hollar Winter 1641 text below ...

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Illustrator: Wenceslaus Hollar

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