Hanau
Medium
Etching, secons state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 3/8 × 3 11/16 in. (6 × 9.4 cm) cut on the platemark
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Carl J. Ulmann, 1924
Accession Number
24.57.90
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intimate world of 17th-century Europe with *Hanau*, a delicate etching in 1635 by Wenceslauslar and Abraham Hogenberg. This second state of two impressions, measuring just 2 3/8 × 3 11/16 inches, captures a poignant scene of ruins intertwined with trees—evoking nature's quiet reclaiming of war-torn landscapes. Hollar, a masterful Bohemian etcher renowned for his precise topographic views, collaborated here with Hogenberg, their skills in printmaking to produce a compact yet evocative image, now housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department as a gift fr...
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Abraham Hogenberg · 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...