Antwerp Cathedral, 1649

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 48.6 x 33.6 cm (19 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 1034, State i/iv

Accession Number

1983.85.1

Artists / Makers

Wenceslaus Hollar (artist) Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Wenceslaus Hollar delineauit, et fecit, 1649; across bottom in plate: PROSPECTVS TVRRIS ECCLESIAE CATHEDRALIS,BEATISSIMAE VIRGINIS MARIAE DEIPARAE, ANTVERPIAE*

Provenance

R.L. Mayer

Associated Names

Hom, Jem, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1986: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.

Bibliography

1982: Pennington, Richard. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Wenceslaus Hollar, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 1034, state i/iv.