Helmeted head

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Francis Place|Wenceslaus Hollar

1662–78 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Head and shoulders of a warrior with mustache and beard, in profile to the left, wearing a plumed helmet with scalloped edge, surmounted by eagle's head. Copy in reverse by Franciis Place after Hollar's etching.

Artist

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Francis Place|Wenceslaus Hollar

Date

1662–78

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917