Art, literature & history
Four Caterpillars and a Snail
1646
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 8 × 11.9 cm (3 1/8 × 4 11/16 in.) sheet: 8.3 × 12.1 cm (3 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.4942
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Wenceslaus Hollar. Four Caterpillars and a Snail. 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,_Four_Caterpillars_and_a_Snail,_1646,_NGA_7864.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Four Caterpillars and a Snail — Wenceslaus Hollar. 1646.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 8 × 11.9 cm (3 1/8 × 4 11/16 in.) sheet: 8.3 × 12.1 cm (3 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.4942. 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.