Naues Mercatoriæ Hollandicæ per Indias Occidentales (Dutch West Indiaman)
Medium
Etching; first or second state of two, the plate shows wear and the sheet is cut where the number would have appeaered
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 9/16 × 9 1/8 in. (14.1 × 23.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925
Accession Number
25.83.5
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...