Byrsa Londinensis vulgo the Royal Exchange (Royal Exchange, London)
1645–47
Medium
Etching, presumably second state of two with number trimmed off margin
Dimensions
sheet: 5 11/16 x 9 15/16 in. (14.4 x 25.2 cm) (clipped impression, inlaid)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.1166-345
Tags
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...