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Murder of Vasconcellos

Ref: P/23421 < >

Physical Attributes
Technique: Copper plate engraving
Dimensions: 111 x 177 mm

Production
Engraver: Wenceslaus Hollar

Galleries

Bibliographic References
Pennington: 0550.2

Unrecorded variant. According to Pennington, the first state contains three images - a portrait of John IV (upper left), the murder of Vasconcellos (upper right) and the coronation of John IV (lower half). A second state exists with the wording under the portrait altered and the other two images blanked out. This print has the altered wording of state ii but has the murder still present. It is thus a state unknown to Pennington. The absence of the lower image is consistent with it being blanked as Pennington describes.




Antique Print - "Murder of Vasconcellos" by W Hollar.