A  moth, three butterflies and two beetles

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A moth, three butterflies and two beetles

Wenceslaus Hollar

Date
1646
Medium
Etching; first state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 3 1/8 × 4 5/8 in. (8 × 11.7 cm) Sheet: 3 9/16 × 5 3/16 in. (9 × 13.1 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
26.72.118
Credit line
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926

Artist information

Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London

Subjects and terms

  • Insects
  • Butterflies

The Met object ID 361545. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.