Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, seen from the East
1656–58
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk, squared in black chalk, and incised
Dimensions
sheet: 6 15/16 x 8 13/16 in. (17.7 x 22.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2010
Accession Number
2010.529
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...