Art, literature & history
Shell (Murex brandaris)
c. 1645
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to platemark): 9.5 × 13.6 cm (3 3/4 × 5 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1992.17.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Wenceslaus Hollar. Shell (Murex brandaris). Wenceslaus Hollar; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslaus_Hollar,_Shell_(Murex_brandaris),_c._1645,_NGA_74805.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Shell (Murex brandaris) — Wenceslaus Hollar. c. 1645.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to platemark): 9.5 × 13.6 cm (3 3/4 × 5 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1992.17.2. Gift of Edward William Carter and Hannah Locke Carter, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.