Shell: Hebrew Volute ( Voluta ebraea L)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: From the unpublished set of 39 plates
Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar
Artist bio: Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Bohemian
Date: ca. 1646
Medium: Etching; only state
Dimensions: Plate: 3 13/16 × 5 9/16 in. (9.7 × 14.2 cm)
cut on the platemark at right and with thread mar gins elsewhere
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1991
Accession year: 1991
Tags: Shells