Arundel House from the North (copy)
17th century (?)
Medium
Etching
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962
Accession Number
62.635.876
Tags
Art Historical Context
Wenceslaus Hollar’s etching “Arundel House from the North (copy)” offers a detailed view of a prominent 17th-century London residence. Created through the delicate medium of etching, the print records the northern approach to Arundel House, a grand Thames-side mansion once housed one of England most important art collections. Human figures, carriages, and horses populate the foreground, suggesting the lively daily activity around this aristocratic estate. Hollar, a Bohemian-born artist who worked extensively in England, specialized in precise topographical prints that preserved the appearance...
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...