Speyer
Medium
Etching, second state of two (New Hollstein)
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 5/16 × 3 11/16 in. (5.9 × 9.3 cm) cut on the platemark
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Carl J. Ulmann, 1924
Accession Number
24.57.91
Tags
TownsRivers
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Abraham Hogenberg · 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...