Prospect of the Lower Part of Tangier
Wenceslaus Hollar
ca. 1670
Medium
Etching; second state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 13/16 × 8 5/16 in. (12.2 × 21.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Julie Parsons Redmond, 1960
Accession Number
60.534.22
Tags
HorsesFortificationCities
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...