<< YCBA Home Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art << YCBA Home

YCBA Collections Search

 
IIIF Actions
Title(s):

A booke of drawinges : performed acording [sic] to the best order for use & brevity that is yet extant.

Published/Created:
London : Printed and are to be sold by Peter Stent, 1650.
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 11 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC735 B66 1650
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details.

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Not in Wing.
Attributed to Wenceslaus Hollar. Cf. Globe.
Globe, Alexander. Peter Stent. Vancouver, 1985. 227.
Pennington, Richard. Descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar. Cambridge, 1982. 1750.
Parthey, Gustav. Wenzel Hollar. Berlin, 1853. 1750.
Bridson E34.
BAC: According to the descriptions in both Parthey and Pennington beneath on link on t.p. is: W. Hollar fecit. The copy in the BAC lacks this: plates are trimmed.
Engraved t.p. Not by Hollar. Cf. Pennington.
Plates of body parts and whole figures.
Engraved throughout.
Subject Terms:
Anatomy, Artistic -- Early works to 1800.
Drawing -- Technique -- Early works to 1800.
Human figure in art -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Engravings.
Contributors:
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, engraver.
Export:
XML


If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.