Art, literature & history
Swallow-tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects
1644-1652
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 11.8 × 18.2 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.) sheet: 12.8 × 19.1 cm (5 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.4953
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Wenceslaus Hollar. Swallow-tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects. 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,_Swallow-tailed_Butterfly_and_Twelve_Other_Insects,_NGA_7875.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Swallow-tailed Butterfly and Twelve Other Insects — Wenceslaus Hollar. 1644-1652.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.8 × 18.2 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.) sheet: 12.8 × 19.1 cm (5 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.4953. Rosenwald Collection.
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.