Kelsterbach Castle near Höchst am Main
Wenceslaus Hollar
1642–44
Medium
Etching; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 1 3/4 × 5 3/8 in. (4.5 × 13.7 cm) cut into image at sides c. 3 cm
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Robert Hartshorne, 1918
Accession Number
18.48.1-4
Tags
Human FiguresCastlesRiversBoats
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...