Realm of Pallas

Adam Elsheimer|Wenceslaus Hollar

1646 · Etching, only state · Drawings and Prints

Realm of Pallas — Adam Elsheimer|Wenceslaus Hollar

Interior of studio at night; Pallas seated at right holding spear, her right feet on globe, leaning her head on her right hand, with her owl in the foreground; bearded man and boy sketching man suspended from the ceiling in the background at right, four men studying by candlelight at table at left; after Elsheimer, after a painting formerly in the Arundel collection and now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (inv. 539; see K. Andrews, 'Adam Elsheimer:Paintings-Drawings-Prints', Oxford 1977, no. 22 as 'The Realm of Minerva').

Artist
Adam Elsheimer|Wenceslaus Hollar
Date
1646
Medium
Etching, only state
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917

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