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Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, seen from the East

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Album of Prints by Hollar

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Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, seen from the East

Wenceslaus Hollar (Wenzel Vaclav)  (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)

Date:
17th century
Medium:
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk, squared in black chalk, and incised
Dimensions:
sheet: 6 15/16 x 8 13/16 in. (17.7 x 22.4 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2010
Accession Number:
2010.529

This artwork is part of Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: At upper right, inscribed "East Window/ of St. Pauls" in pen and brown ink (by the artist)

  • Provenance

    Alfred Scharf (Königsberg, Germany [Kaliningrad, Russia] 1900–1965 London); Anonymous, purchased from A. Scharf, January 17, 1956; Anonymous, received as gift from previous owner, ca. 1985; Sotheby's, London, July 6, 2010, lot 109; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Old Master & British Drawings Sotheby's London. July 6, 2010, cat. no. 109, ill.

    Simon Turner Wenceslaus Hollar in The New Hollstein: German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700. Giulia Bartrum, Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel, 2011, p. 58, under cat. 1700.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 95; introduction, p. xiv, cat. no. 95, ill.



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