Frontispiece to 'Eikon Basilike'
Medium
Etching, only state
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 4 15/16 in. (10.8 × 12.5 cm) Cut outside image but within platemark
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Carl J. Ulmann, 1924
Accession Number
24.57.107
Tags
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Charles I, King of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland · 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...