Zuyder Zee
Medium
Etching, only state
Dimensions
Plate: 2 3/8 × 3 11/16 in. (6 × 9.3 cm) Sheet: 2 7/16 × 3 3/4 in. (6.2 × 9.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Accession Number
1986.1180.1413
Tags
Art Historical Context
Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department will delight in *Zuyder Zee* (1635), a diminutive yet dramatic etching by Wenceslauslar and Abraham Hogen. Measuring just over 2 by 3 inches, this-state print captures the turbulent waters of the Zuyder Zee—a vast inland sea in the Netherlands for trade and fishing during the Dutch Golden Age. Amidst crashing waves and stormy skies, fragile ships battle the elements, evoking the perilous realities of 17th-century maritime life. Hollar, a Bohemian etcher renowned for his meticulous topographic views, collaborated with ...
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...