Three moths, two butterflies and a bumble bee

1646

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; first state of three
Dimensions: Plate: 3 3/16 × 4 5/8 in. (8.1 × 11.8 cm) Sheet: 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 in. (9.2 × 13 cm)
Collection no.: 26.72.122
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Wenceslaus Hollar. Three moths, two butterflies and a bumble bee. Wenceslaus Hollar; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Three moths, two butterflies and a bumble bee — Wenceslaus Hollar. 1646.

Medium: Etching; first state of three. Dimensions: Plate: 3 3/16 × 4 5/8 in. (8.1 × 11.8 cm) Sheet: 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 in. (9.2 × 13 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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