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Wenceslaus Hollar  (1607–1677)  wikidata:Q448555 s:en:Author:Wenceslaus Hollar q:cs:Václav Hollar
 
Wenceslaus Hollar
Description printmaker, cartographer, illustrator, graphic artist, engraver and drawer
Date of birth/death 13 July 1607 Edit this at Wikidata 25 March 1677 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Prague London
Work period 1600 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q448555
After Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)  wikidata:Q5580 s:en:Author:Albrecht Dürer q:en:Albrecht Dürer
 
After Albrecht Dürer
Alternative names
Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg
Work period 1484 Edit this at Wikidata–1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q5580
Publisher
Adam Alexius Bierling
Description
English: Portrait of a young woman with coiled plaited pinned-up hair in a net seated half-length to right, with head tilted to right, looking towards the viewer; her arms crossed on a ledge, holding a thistle and two other small plant-stems; wearing a headdress and low-cut bodice; coat of arms of the Fürleger family hanging from a nail at upper left, piece of paper above lettered with 'Also bin ich gestalt / in achcehe Jor altt. / 1497'; Dürer's statue on a column on the side of the window behind, holding an open book lettered with Dürer's monogram; fortified town seen through the window; after Dürer; first state, before cross-hatching between her right arm and body.
Depicted people Associated with: Catharina Fürleger
Date 1646
date QS:P571,+1646-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium etching print on paper
Dimensions height: 256 mm (10.07 in); width: 184 mm (7.24 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,256U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,184U174789
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
E,2.5
Notes

The sitter has been associated with Catharina Fürleger (see www.portraitindex.de). Dürer's painting, dated 1497, after which Hollar made this print is in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, where it is described as a member of the Fürleger family.

See E,2.5 for another impression, and Bb,8.294 for another copy of the same painting.
Source/Photographer British Museum
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