Elephant and Flowers (Primary Title)
from from Animalium, ferarum, and bestiarum, florum, fructuum (Series Title)
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677, active in Germany, Flanders, and England (Artist)
This composition shows that there was no geographical focus to the way in which the subjects were selected or arranged in Animalium Ferarum. The rather generic elephant, with its “Munkie” astride, is set before a non-descript palm tree, with no clear relation between it and the adjacent flowers and insects.
P. 2066, state 1 of 3
Watermark: Foolscap (?)
Purchased as a gift of Frank Raysor
Hollar’s Encyclopedic Eye: Prints from the Frank Raysor Collection, VMFA, 2 February - 5 May 2019
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC
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