Dead stag

1646

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; only state
Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/4 in. × 8 in. (13.4 × 20.3 cm) trimmed c. 4 x 2 mm within platemark
Collection no.: 51.501.1374
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Wenceslaus Hollar. Dead stag. Wenceslaus Hollar; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951. 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

Dead stag — Wenceslaus Hollar. 1646.

Medium: Etching; only state. Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/4 in. × 8 in. (13.4 × 20.3 cm) trimmed c. 4 x 2 mm within platemark.

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951.

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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