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Divers anticke faces after Leonardo da Vinci, etched in copper by W.H...London 1666 – Vintage Wall Art

Divers anticke faces after Leonardo da Vinci, etched in copper by W.H...London 1666 — historic print
Divers anticke faces after Leonardo da Vinci, etched in copper by W.H...London 1666. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Divers anticke faces after Leonardo da Vinci, etched in copper by W.H...London 1666, preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Divers anticke faces after Leonardo da Vinci, etched in copper by W.H...London 1666

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A sheet of several grotesque heads, drawn in the manner of Leonardo da Vinci's caricature studies, forms the subject here, and the initials W.H. on the plate are generally read as Wenceslaus Hollar, the Bohemian-born engraver who worked in London for much of his career. Hollar produced etchings at a remarkable pace and often translated other artists' drawings into prints so they could reach viewers far beyond the original sheets. Issued in London in 1666, the year of the Great Fire, the plate shows how seventeenth-century collectors valued Leonardo's exaggerated features. Worth noticing is the fine, even line Hollar uses to render the wrinkles, hair and shadow of each face.

Medium1 print : etching.
Notes1666
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,038 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128969

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