Hollar (Wenceslaus, 1607-1677). Portrait of Albrecht Dürer’s Father, after Albrecht Dürer 1644, & Sir Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford, after Anthony van Dyck 1640, etchings, very good impressions, Dürer’s Father the second (final) state, the details printing with crispness and clarity, on laid paper, with narrow to thread margins, platemark 22.3 x 16.3 cm, sheet size 23 x 17 cm, in very good condition, a couple of horizontal creases visible verso, Thomas Wentworth on fine laid paper with a Double Headed Eagle watermark (similar to Heawood 1300, dated 1644), trimmed on or within the platemark, retaining a blank border around the image and text, sheet size 32.1 x 21.6 cm (12 5/8 x 8 1/2 ins), mounted, framed and glazed, 52.5 x 37.5 cm and 56 x 43 cm (Quantity: 2) Portrait of Dürer’s Father: Pennington 1389 ii/ii; New Hollstein (Hollar part III) 692 II/II; Portrait of Thomas Wentworth: Pennington 1508a, New Hollstein 289; the latter formerly with Craddock and Barnard according to label on verso. The Royalist Sir Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), 'Knight Earle of Strafforde', was executed by Parliament in 1641. Hollar recorded the event in the etching of that year, ‘The true maner [manner] of the execution of Thomas Earle of Strafford’, an impression of which is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Accession Number: 17.3.3280).
Hollar (Wenceslaus, 1607-1677). Portrait of Albrecht Dürer’s Father, after Albrecht Dürer 1644, & Sir Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford, after Anthony van Dyck 1640, etchings, very good impressions, Dürer’s Father the second (final) state, the details printing with crispness and clarity, on laid paper, with narrow to thread margins, platemark 22.3 x 16.3 cm, sheet size 23 x 17 cm, in very good condition, a couple of horizontal creases visible verso, Thomas Wentworth on fine laid paper with a Double Headed Eagle watermark (similar to Heawood 1300, dated 1644), trimmed on or within the platemark, retaining a blank border around the image and text, sheet size 32.1 x 21.6 cm (12 5/8 x 8 1/2 ins), mounted, framed and glazed, 52.5 x 37.5 cm and 56 x 43 cm (Quantity: 2) Portrait of Dürer’s Father: Pennington 1389 ii/ii; New Hollstein (Hollar part III) 692 II/II; Portrait of Thomas Wentworth: Pennington 1508a, New Hollstein 289; the latter formerly with Craddock and Barnard according to label on verso. The Royalist Sir Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), 'Knight Earle of Strafforde', was executed by Parliament in 1641. Hollar recorded the event in the etching of that year, ‘The true maner [manner] of the execution of Thomas Earle of Strafford’, an impression of which is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Accession Number: 17.3.3280).
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