Strasbourg: A Toll House

c. 1632

Wenceslaus Hollar

Artist, Bohemian, 1607 - 1677

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 4.9 x 16.9 cm (1 15/16 x 6 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.163.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 466, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green, Virginia; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

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. 466, stte ii/ii.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: W Hollar fecit; upper center in plate: Wassertzoll bey Strassburg; lower center in plate: Ill flu; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 763 / 30 (164)

Wikidata ID

Q74894567

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