Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, seen from the East

Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, seen from the East by Wenceslaus Hollar

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

BuildingsChurches

About the Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar · 16071677

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...

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