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Title Page from Diversae Insectorum...Figurae
Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677)
after 1644
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 11.6 × 18.1 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Bohemia
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Joseph Brooks Fair Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
A prolific and multitalented artist, Wenceslaus Hollar produced almost 3,000 etchings over the course of some 50 years, with subjects ranging from fashion and portraiture to architecture and landscape. This etching is the title page to a set of six scientific renderings of insects and other small creatures. Remarkable for their virtuosity and detail, the technical presentation of these works is most likely attributed to the invention of the microscope at the end of the 16th century.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
