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Hollar, Wenceslaus
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
- Hollar, Wenceslaus
- Ten fine portraits of London Courtesans temp[ore] Charles II. [London, after 1670]
- Ink, paper and cow
8vo (7 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.; 193 x 118 mm). 10 plates. Dampstain on upper margin not affecting the illustrations. nineteenth-century red straight-grained morocco, blind-stamped losange and gilt ornament on panels; extremities slightly rubbed.
Provenance
Charles Francis Adams (bookplate). acquisition: Goodspeed, 1994
Literature
Catalogue of the Library, Manuscripts and Prints of Rushton M. Dorman. 1886, 584
Catalogue Note
These etchings by Hollar represent the most celebrated loose women of London in the reign of the "Merrie Monarch," Charles II. They all have their name on the plate: "Cyl. Sa— s, a St'r Walker all she can get," "Sopa. B— , 5 Guis. p. nig.," "Cisy. D— v i Gui a Nt," "Phys. J— n 1 Crown."