Stuttgart, from "German Views"
Medium
Etching, only state
Dimensions
Plate: 2 1/8 × 4 9/16 in. (5.4 × 11.6 cm) cut on platemark
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.17-405
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intricate world of 17th-century Europe with Wenceslaus Hollar etching *Stuttgart, from "German Views"* (1663). This delicate print, measuring just 2 1/8 × 4 9/16 inches, captures the bustling Swabian city of Stuttgart in a precise topographical style. Hollar, a Bohemian-born master etcher who spent much of his career in England, was renowned for his meticulous cityscapes and landscapes, producing thousands of works that documented the era's architecture and daily life with remarkable fidelity. As the only state of this etching—meaning no subsequent alterations were made to the p...
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...