View of Lahnstein on the River Rhine
Wenceslaus Hollar
ca. 1636
Medium
Pen and brown ink over black and red chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 3 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. (9.8 x 23.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2006
Accession Number
2006.8
Tags
BuildingsRiversBoats
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...