Prospect of Jerusalem
Medium
Etching; margin where Overton's address would have appeared has been trimmed off this impression and so the state cannot be determined.
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 1/8 × 42 1/2 in. (38.4 × 108 cm) cut to the borderlines all around
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.81.2.181
Tags
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Juan Bautista Villalpando · 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...