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Etcher Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
After Jacques d'Arthois Flemish
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A man wearing a feathered hat givies alms to a beggar seated by a sunken road among rocks and trees, with landscape in the background, after Jacob van Artois
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Title: The Beggar
Series/Portfolio: Landscapes : Seven plates after Jacques d'Arthois (New Hollstein 996-1002)
Etcher:
Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
Artist:
After Jacques d'Arthois (Flemish, 1613–ca. 1686)
Date: 1649
Medium: Etching; first state of three
Dimensions: Sheet: 6 in. × 13/16 in. (15.3 × 2.1 cut outside the image, except at lower right corner, but within the platemark.
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number: 20.81.2.157
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