“Winter Woman” engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, repurposed by Edward Benlowes in Theophila (1652)

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Photograph of Hollar’s “Winter Woman” plate repurposed in *Theophila* (1652)
“Winter Woman” engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, repurposed by Edward Benlowes in Theophila (1652). In this copy, it is placed opposite the preliminary poem to women readers. University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Folio EC65 B4387 652t, facing sig. A2r.

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Engraving of a woman wrapped in furs, illustrating the “Winter Woman” in Hollar’s “Four Seasons” series.

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    Image
  • created on
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    jpg
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  • container title
    Edward Benlowes, Theophila (London: Henry Seile and Humphrey Moseley, 1652)
  • copyright status
    Public Domain
  • creator
    Edward Benlowes, Wenceslaus Hollar
  • credit
    Used by permission of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
  • original publisher
    Edward Benlowes, Roger Norton, Henry Seile, Humphrey Moseley
  • original publisher place
    London
  • rights
    CC0
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    Worldwide