The Dead Mole

Wenceslaus Hollar

1607–1677

The Dead Mole, 1646

Where object was made: Antwerp, Southern Netherlands (present-day Belgium)

Material/technique: etching

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 51 x 126 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 70 x 138 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 2 1/2 x 4 15/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 2 3/4 x 5 7/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 11 x 14 in

Credit line: Gift from the John and Ann Talleur Collection

Accession number: 2001.0131

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Exhibition Label:
"Cabinets of Curiosity: Musing About Collections," Jun-2006, Joseph Keehn and Madeline Rislow
Hollar was an enormously prolific etcher who spent part of his career documenting important seventeenth-century collections in England, Germany and the Low Countries, notably that of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel. His etchings of objects in Arundel's collection included a large set of butterflies and insects, etchings of paintings and drawings in the Earl's collection by such artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Holbein the younger and Holbein the elder.

We do not know the circumstances under which Hollar etched The Dead Mole, but it is probably too early to have been an item in the Arundel Collection.