Caricatures and deformities after Leonardo. Rex et Regina de Tunis.

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Caricatures and deformities after Leonardo. Rex et Regina de Tunis.

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The immensely prolific and talented Czech printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was employed between 1636 and 1644 as an artist and cataloguer in the household of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, one of the greatest art collectors of his era. The Earl, a victim of the English Civil War, fled overseas and died in 1646; Hollar himself moved with his family to Antwerp in 1644, where this etching would have been made. The return of political stability led to Hollar's return to London in 16...

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Date created

circa 1645

Creator

Wenceslaus Hollar / Leonardo da Vinci

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/37987

Related subjects

People / Men / women / Caricatures / Headdresses / Kings / Queens / royalty / ink / paper / prints / etchings / works on paper / etching / wash technique / Renaissance / Flanders / Bishop Ditlev Monrad

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