About this artwork
This etching is one of a set of images by Hollar showing female figures representing the four seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Each is shown wearing elegant seasonal dress and handling symbolic and seasonal fruit or flowers. The poem which accompanies Autumn reads: 'Our Joy and sorrow now come both together. Autumn brings fruit, but Autumn brings cold weather. Here taste the first, the last, you’ll feel no doubt except attired like me you keep it out.'
Updated 2021
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artist:Wenceslaus Hollar (1607 - 1677) Bohemian
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title:Autumn
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date created:1641
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materials:Etching on paper
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased October 1963
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accession number:P 2563.3
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gallery:
Wenceslaus Hollar
Wenceslaus Hollar
Wenceslaus Hollar was born in Prague, then capital of the historical region Bohemia (present day Czech Republic). After working in various towns in Germany he moved to London, where he was to spend most of his career and stayed until his death. He is best known for his topographical landscape...