The Great Chalice Adorned with Figures

1640 Sheet: 46.7 x 24.5 cm (18 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.) Source image
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Chalices traditionally hold the priest’s consecrated wine during Catholic Mass. Wenceslaus Hollar made this etching of an over-life-size chalice from a drawing in the collection of his patron, the English 14th Earl of Arundel. The elaborate decoration consists of scenes from t...

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etching
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