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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
High Cliffs
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

High Cliffs

Artist Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607-1677)
Publisher Frans van den Wyngaerde (Belgian, 1614 - 1679)
Date1649
MediumWood engraving, laid paper
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 3/8 x 10 5/16 in. (18.7 x 26.2 cm)
Overall: 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (36.2 x 48.9 cm)
InscribedWatermarked with large crown over an indistinct design. On back "4 - folio #7 after AElisheimer". Attached to backing at three corners: "AElsheimer inu./W. Hollar fecit 1649/F van den Wyngarde exc." written on plate in bottom margin. "O M!42" written in bottom margin, in pencil.
Credit LineGift of Mr. C.W. Grandy
Object number50.47.19
On View
Not on view
DescriptionWood engraving of a landscape with high rocky cliffs.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Wenceslaus Hollar
17th century
Image scanned from a transparency.
Wenceslaus Hollar
1615-1675
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Ludolf Bakhuizen
1701
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Captured from a digital file.
William Trost Richards
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Albert Blaukert
1590-1660
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Herman van Suanevelt
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Albert Blaukert
1590-1660
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Albert Blaukert
1590-1660
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Willem van Swanenburgh
ca. 1610
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Captured from a digital file.
William Trost Richards
No Date
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Unknown
Late 18th or early 19th century