Antwerp Cathedral (Prospectvs Tvrris Ecclesiæ Cathedralis)
Wenceslaus Hollar
1625–77
Medium
Etching; second state of five
Dimensions
plate: 18 7/8 x 13 1/4 in. (47.9 x 33.7 cm) sheet: 19 5/16 x 13 5/8 in. (49.1 x 34.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.9
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
ArchitectureCathedrals
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar · 1607–1677
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was a prolific Bohemian etcher who became one of the most accomplished printmakers of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague, he trained under Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt before entering the service of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1636. Hollar spent most of his career in England, where he produced approximately 2,740 etchings documenting an extraordinary range...